Edith Swieca and husband, Albert, arrived in Australia from Brussels in 1947. The couple joined Albert’s brother Sam’s hat business, designing & making felt hats. Belmode Knitting Mills was created after Albert purchased a knitting machine for the hat business. In 1955, the couple purchased a building in Newtown where they continued to manufacture knitwear and hats, primarily children’s school pullovers and cardigans, until they sold the machines and bought the Kings Cross Newsagency in 1964.
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Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
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Automatic relation to Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW created because Dusty pink knitted wool jacket was related to the same collection. -
June 18, 2015, 10:43 a.m.
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