Pioneers and Palms: Three Generations of South Australian EmbroiderersGeneration 1 - Georgiana Margaretha Eliza Palm 1864 - 1939
The Palms were active in all aspects of their community and regularly entered exhibits in the local Cummins' Agricultural and Horticultural Society Show. Over the years, Georgiana won many prizes for her 'fine needlework'. In 1926, Albert and Georgiana moved to the inner Adelaide suburb of Wayville. Georgiana continued with her 'fancywork' and won many first prizes at the Royal Adelaide Show and in competitions interstate promoted by the two cotton-makers Semco and Coats. Some of her crochet work went on display in other capital cities. Georgiana continued her knitting and crochet until her final illness and at the time of her death was part-way through crocheting a d'oyley in the finest thread from a very difficult pattern.
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The Embroiderers' Guild of South Australia
