Despite this battered album unfortunately not containing one post card, it was found to be full of interesting cuttings and advertisements from the late l920s running through the l930s, mainly dealing with knitting , although pimples, freckles, blackheads and mail order false teeth were covered .
It was compiled by an avid knitter who cut many articles on the subject from a variety of publications including the Australian Home Journal, Madame Weigel's Melbourne Journal of Fashion, Woman's Budget , The Australian Woman's Mirror; loosely inserted was the 14pp Weldon's ABC of Knitting. which included instructions for jazzy knitting.
A circa 1934 cutting , above , in which someone in Townsville sought instructions on how to make a beaded mat , jumped out. Leafing through the album, an illustrated December 23 , l931 advertisement for Australia's longest running comic strip, Ginger Meggs , he more popular in his day than Bluey , was found .
Knitting , it seems, was promoted as an equal gender sport , going on the following cutting, which featured a dandy entangled in the end of a damsel's ball of wool.
