UNION BANNER, Tailors & Tailoresses

CH1974.112

Double-sided banner of the "EASTERN GOLDFIELDS / AMALGAMATED / TAILORS & TAILORESSES SOCIETY". Complete with box and top pole. Storage box inadvertently destroyed by Conservation Department, October 1981. "Unsigned, possibly 1910. Western Australian Made. This banner differs in a few essential features from traditional banners. It is fairly plain, all canvas with leather bound corners, but without a silk border or loops for the top pole. The blue painted canvas is simply decorated with gold scroll border decoration, roses, asters and daisies around two work cameos. The design gives equal prominence to both tailors and tailoresses and is one of the very few surviving Australian banners illustrating a working woman (rather than decorated with a female allegorical figure). The tailor is sitting in a traditional cross legged position on the cutting table with shears, sleeve board, twine and a tailor's iron. The tailoress is sitting a a Singer treadle sewing machine making a pair of trousers. The tailoress could be Miss J. McCullum who represented the union at the Trades and Labour Congress in Perth in 1900. Central prominence is given to the registered union label. The Affiliated Unions of Tailors and Tailoresses were established in Western Australia in the goldfields in 1897. The reverse is simply decorated with the words `Amalgamated Tailors and Tailoresses Society'. The clasped handshake of a man and a woman above the motto `Let Us Pull Together' is a strong statement both of union solidarity and of recognition of the role of men and women in the workplace."

Department: 

History Department

Collection

History Collection

Collection Item Data

Accession Number: CH1974.112
Accession Date: 21 May 1974

Material

Canvas/Textile

Canvas

Measurement

length26950mm(both sides; including loop)
width27100mm(top)
width27350mm(base)
length1450mm(fringe)
diameter480mm(pole)
length34380mm(pole)

 


 

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