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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Touch-line flag for the Welsh schoolboy international rugby match between England and Wales played in the Cardiff Arms Park on the 14 of March 1908. The game was drawn 0-0. The Welsh touch-judge that day was J. V. Evans (Swansea) who was the treasurer of the Welsh Schools Rugby Union.
Victor Evans was a founder member of the Welsh Schools' Rugby Union and was also its first treasurer. A hatter from Carmarthen, he then became headmaster in Terrace Road, Swansea, where he greatly encouraged soccer and rugby. The flag was made by his wife, Margaret Mabel Evans, a great embroiderer from Pontarddulais, whose mother was a dressmaker who worked both in Pontarddulais and London. The flag was prepared for the first Welsh schoolboy rugby international match, held at Cardiff Arms Park, 14 March 1908.
The small flag is made from one piece of dark red silk backed with pink plain woven cotton, which has been folded to form the flag with a pole sleeve on the left side. The construction stitches are made by machine (3 S plied silk thread). The front side is embroidered with the following text ‘W.S.R.U. England V Wales Cardiff, March 14th, 1908.’ It is sewn by hand using stem stitch in cream floss thread over 2 cotton (2 z spun s plied) threads to give a raised effect.
