Evangeline Middlemore weaving samples

8 dyed hanks of wool and 23 samples of weave, sewn onto pages originally stored in a ring-binder, with 2 loose samples (between pages 16 and 17, and between pages 55 and 56). There are 55 pages altogether, bearing annotations relating to the samples or notes about other weaving, plus 5 pieces of paper inserted in the front of the ring-binder. The latter include a piece of paper from which the formerly attached sample is now missing, and a price list of 'Wool...available for handspinners' from Ebenezer Prior Ltd of Chichester.
Designs include 'Mr Ohly's coat' and 'Marjory Buke's coat', and notes at the back are headed 'Alice Hindson, March 30, 1950'

Mary Evangeline Middlemore was born in Selly Oak near Birmingham on 1st November 1882. She was a daughter of John Throgmorton Middlemore of Edgbaston. She worked as a school matron in Petersfield, and during the First World War she volunteered with the Voluntary Aid Detachment, working in Serbia as a hospital assistant for the Serbian Relief Fund.
After the war she lived in London. She died on 15th September 1959.

Each sheet of paper has been numbered in the order in which they were found, beginning with the inserted sheets at the front

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This entry was compiled by Shirley Dixon, Crafts Study Centre archivist, 2022.

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