Three Museums Victoria objects reveal distinct lives for knitted teapot coverings: Violet May Wilson’s prize-winning bird cosy, Kath Davis’s glory-box stripes and Ada Perry’s parrot holder.
How Kodak Australasia’s 1941–46 staff fund connected hand-knitted socks, letters and bulletins with absent colleagues. Nell Cameron’s role is traced through museum records and two distinct plaques.
How drawings by children at Strathewen Primary School became knitted chook cushions after Australia’s 2009 bushfires, examined through a preserved object, a separate drawing, and Barbara Joyce’s account.
How a 2020 Maroondah knitting project connected local makers with support agencies: Diana Pullin’s museum scarf, council records, five clearly attributed visuals and the limits of the surviving evidence.
Explore Ruby Fisher’s 1910 Preciosa knitting machine, manual, sock, mitten and handwritten notes through five licensed Museums Victoria photographs and primary object records.
Five surviving objects reveal how Melbourne’s Ricardo Knitwear presented its factory, Australian-made label, shop tag and wool-fashion awards.
Five Museums Victoria objects reveal Edda Azzola’s hand-operated machine knitting, design notes, samples and garments, and the migrant home labour behind Melbourne’s Ricardo Knitwear.
Five knitted objects in Museums Victoria’s William Boyd Childhood Collection reveal the difference between knit, embroidery and crochet in one postwar Australian family wardrobe.
Explore two Latvian-pattern socks knitted in Australia through Museums Victoria’s Apinis family collection, with clear maker credits and comparisons to woven costume pieces.
Five paintings by Swiss artist Albert Anker reveal knitting between classroom lessons and family care. Museum and collection records separate what the paintings show from broader claims about education, with image rights identified for every work.