The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
This series contains cards embroidered with messages for relatives such as fathers, aunts, brothers and children (mothers, wives and sisters are held in different series).
As with the general greeting cards, swallows, pansies (meaning 'you occupy my thoughts'), roses (love) and forget me nots (meaning true love, memories) were popular.
In some cases more masculine images, such as anchors and flags were used for cards addressed to "my dear Father" or "my dear Brother".
This series contains greeting postcards embroidered with messages for mothers. As with the general greeting postcards flowers, such as roses (meaning love) and pansies (meaning 'you occupy my thoughts
This series contains cards sent to friends and relatives with a general message of greeting. Typical images used were the swallow, the pansy (which was a very popular image in silk cards. Its popular
This series contains greeting, birthday and Christmas cards embroidered with messages for wives and sweethearts. The primary images are roses and pansies. All roses symbolize love, but certain colors
This series contains cards with message for sisters. Flowers dominate the images used by the embroiderers. Particularly pansies (meaning 'you occupy my thoughts') and roses (love).