This contains gold purl and wire. A label, still attached to the purl threads reads ‘Made in France by Roland’ alongside an image of a sword. In the margins is ‘Trademark Pavier Brothers Lyon Registered’. The same stamp can be found on the box. Purl threads are fine, coiling metal wires without a thread in the middle. They were known as gim kasar and giem kembang, where ‘gim’ meant gold.Examples in this group demonstrate the variety of colours, thread and bead types available to embroiderers in Penang and Singapore.
