These boxes contain gold thread wrapped in paper which is stamped ‘Gohchi Awhark. No. 78 Circular Road. Singapore’. Goh Chiauw Hark was a small goods and textile company which traded in Chinese fabrics, handkerchiefs, towels and leather trunks sourced from Guangzhou and Fujian.Examples in this group demonstrate the variety of colours, thread and bead types available to embroiderers in Penang and Singapore. Gold and silver threads were imported into Singapore in the second half of the 19th century, of which over half of the imported threads were retained for domestic consumption.
