Red Cross Knitting Booklet

Object/Artifact

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Goulbourn Museum

Name/Title

Red Cross Knitting Booklet

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.25

Description

Paper book bound with staples. The cover is yellow, with a black band running along the bottom edge of the book. The cover depicts a woman in nurse's clothing behind a red cross. The text is in a mix of yellow and red, reading "The Canadian Red Cross Society. Knitting Instructions for The Armed Forces. Compliments of the Yellow Pages of your Telephone Directory". The book details several methods to sew and mend clothes, written in a format for deployed forces.

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Red Cross Sewing Kit, red cross, knitting instructions, military

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Book, Knitting

Dimensions

Height

17 cm

Width

8.5 cm

Dimension Notes

2015-08-06 Vertical

Material

paper - papier, metal - métal