Misses McKinlay

  • Designer (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)
Misses McKinlay were taught the art of Spanish blackwork embroidery by their mother and exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts in 1912.
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Embroiderers, sisters of Miguel McKinlay had a Spanish mother and Scottish father. They arrived as a family about 1900. They were taught the art of Spanish blackwork embroidery by their mother and exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts in 1912. A reviewer wrote that: “... three entries designed by Misses McKinlay, one worked by themselves and two by Mrs Slocock that are worthy of note. The stitching in the stems in the floral design of the Misses McKinlays’ first entry (42) is wonderfully neat.”


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Writers:
Dr Dorothy Erickson
Date written:
2010
Last updated:
2011

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