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'EARNING CASH INCOME - WOMEN' produced the following results:
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[ 97MM ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Utilitarian, Typically Australian, Re-used clothing or blanket
Owner: Muriel Mackenzie - Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA QLD - Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "These quilts were made out of necessity to help keep a family warm during very cold winters in Killarney. When I was first engaged and used to go to Killarney I used to hope that these quilts would not be put on my bed as they were..." |
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[ 98MM ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Utilitarian, Typically Australian, Re-used clothing or blanket
Owner: Muriel Mackenzie - Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA QLD - Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "These quilts were made out of necessity to help keep a family warm during very cold winters in Killarney. When I was first engaged and used to go to Killarney I used to hope that these quilts would not be put on my bed as they were..." |
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[ 128MOV ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Repeat Block
Owner: Museum of Victoria - Country/Place Created: PAKISTAN - Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "The Sind area, a region of Pakistan, is famous for embroidery.
"Much of the best Sind embroidery comes from the eastern area of the province around Umarkot and Chor. Embroidery in silk and cotton thread is usually worked on a..." |
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[ 137NWM ] Quilt Style: Patchwork
Owner: National Wool Museum - Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA VIC - Date: 1901 - 1920
Story of Quilt: "Mrs Brown worked as a mantle-makerat 'Mcivors Mantle Makers' in Flinders Lane, Melbourne. Her employer supplied fabric samples for the quilt which was her contribution to their home on her marriage. Agnes' son Cyril noted that the..." |
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[ 155JB ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Quilting as major design element
Owner: June Brown - Country/Place Created: CANADA - Date: Unknown
Story of Quilt: "I first met this quilt protecting a grand piano at 'Auldearn' my aunt's summer cottage, Jackson's point, Lake Simcoe, Ontario in 1949. After her death in 1960 it was sent among other things including an old, handwoven, handstitched..." |
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[ 177EQ ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Frame
Owner: Janette McInnes - Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA VIC - Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "The quilt was donated to Essendon Quilters. It had been bought at an op shop for $2.00. I had become very interested in the quilt and after a bit of research found the person who gave it to the op shop. That was Mrs Chalmers. Beryl..." |
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[ 179QHS ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Repeat Block
Owner: Queenscliffe Historical Society Inc - Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA VIC - Date: 1851 - 1880
Quilt History: "Made by Elizabeth Keen, a dressmaker in Fyansford, Geelong (VIC), in 1879. Possibly made for the 1879 Geelong Industrial and Juvenile Exhibition." |
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[ 180MP ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Repeat Block, Log Cabin, Pieced Random
Owner: Molly Palmer - Country/Place Created: CANADA - Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "Letter from Molly Palmer 1995:
"I was interested in your article in 'Country Style' in August number, not because I have an antique quilt, but because of an interest in and my love for a very old one which was brought to this..." |
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[ 193LT ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Mosaic, Typically Australian, Re-used clothing or blanket
Owner: Laurel Thompson - Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA VIC - Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "Minnie Dolores Thompson was Australian, born of Irish/English extraction, and lived in Port Melbourne.
"The quilt maker was a tailoress & her daughter worked in Flinders Lane, Melbourne (in the 'rag' trade). The fabrics..." |
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[ 194FW ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Frame
Owner: Fred Wood - Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA VIC - Date: 1901 - 1920
Story of Quilt: "Charlotte Gambold arrived in the Wangaratta district at about 6 years of age, the eldest of three children, with her parents, Thorres and Mary Gambold, in 1866. Later, her father was a molybdenite miner (this mineral was, and still..." |
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