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[ 121BF ] Quilt Style: Pieced Animal skins, Exotic Animals
Owner: Bud and Patricia Ford  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA QLD -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "It took Bud and Patricia Ford 6 months of intermittent work in the evenings to stitch the rug. This was by kerosene lamplight at 'Aldersyde' Homestead, Miles Queensland."

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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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[ 352GC ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Mosaic, Hexagon
Owner: Gwen Cordinglay  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA WA -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "Made to occupy time waiting for husband to return from shift work in Mines at Boulder [near Kalgoorlie]. Fabrics mainly silks or rayons. Many provided by dressmaker aunt in Perth, who sent bags of scraps. Some stitching perished and..."

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[ 642CS ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Suffolk Puff
Owner: Celia Suddull  -  Country/Place Created: ENGLAND & SHIPBOARD -  Date: 1881 - 1900
Story of Quilt: "Clara Jemima Hughes (1863-1955) was in service in London and agreed to marry William Johnson who was already in Adelaide. In 1884 Clara paid 10 pound for a ticket to Adelaide on the Orient line 'Sorata', one of the first steamships. ..."

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[ 670FL ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Frame
Owner: Fleur Margaret Lehane  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA QLD -  Date: 1881 - 1900
Story of Quilt: "The quilt is believed to have been made at 'Thylungra' Quilpie Queensland where Bridget lived with her son Patsy from the early 1870s. She was a true pioneer of the district and the life of the Duracks in opening up the Cooper Creek..."

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[ 693RA ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Mosaic, Hexagon
Owner: Rhonda Allardice  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA VIC -  Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "The Story of the Quilt It's maker: Florence Gertrude Awyun (nee Taylor) Born 30th April 1891 - Snapper Point, Mornington, Victoria. Father's occupation - Brickmaker 1900 - Family shifted to Clifton Springs, near Drysdale,..."

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[ 702BW ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Mosaic, Square
Owner: Beryl Warne  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA VIC -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "The patches for the quilt were cut from Beryl's dressmaking scraps including from her 'going away dress' and scraps from toddler's clothes and furnishing scraps. Her mother, Ruth Holman, gave her the old wool cream blanket. The pale..."

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[ 731MR ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Utilitarian, Typically Australian, Domestic Wagga
Owner: Mary-O Roberts  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "When I married 44 years ago and lived outback of Broken Hill my mother-in-law was still making Waggas for family members, and had made them also as a young woman for when she and her husband were on the road carting wool by camel..."

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[ 772PHM ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Random, Crazy
Owner: Powerhouse Museum  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1881 - 1900
Story of Quilt: ".....Marion Gibson was born in Scotland, the daughter of a tailor. In 1854 she married John Gibson, a bootmaker, and they sailed for Australia. The settled in Coolac where John set up business as a bootmaker until, in 1875,..."

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[ 900MV ] Quilt Style: Pieced Animal skins, Skin Cloaks
Owner: Museum Victoria  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA Vic -  Date: 1851 - 1880
Story of Quilt: "Only five possum skin cloaks made in south-eastern Australia before 1900 have survived. Two are in Museum Victoria's collection. The others are in museums in Britain, the U.S.A. and Germany. The meaning of the designs on this..."

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