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Home > State Library and Archives of Tasmania

Category: Exhibitions

Sewing for freedom: clothes production at the Cascades Female Factory

Piece of paper that detailing the work capacity of different classes of female convicts. Text reads: "Van Diemen's land. Convict department. Revised scale of task = Work. adapted to the capacity of the several classes of female convicts proportioned for the various seasons of the year"

Tasmanian Textiles and Clothing in Film

A still from a film titled: More than apples. 3 Women standing next to a brick wall

The Race to a Thousand Pounds: Unravelling Tasmania’s Woollen Industry (Part Two: To the South)

A photograph of a farmer and his flock

The Race to a Thousand Pounds: Unravelling Tasmania’s Woollen Industry (Part One: In the North)

A photograph of a farmer and his flock

Manufacturing Reform: Female Convicts and Straw Bonnets

Plans for the ship HMS Anson. lower & orlop decks fitted out for a female convict ship

Introducing our new exhibition: Duck Trousers, Straw Bonnets, and Bluey: Stories of Fabrics and Clothing in Tasmania

An old photograph of Bishop's Bark Mill (off York Street) in Launceston. 1890's

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