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181 to 190 of 542 quilts

181.

[ 375MR ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Utilitarian, Typically Australian, Traditional Wagga
Owner: Max Robertson  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "Norman Robertson worked on properties in the Coolamon district of NSW and also at Pike's flour mill. One of his jobs was sewing up bags of wheat on farms. He made the Wagga Rug to use on beds in the sleepout of the Coolamon house..."

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182.

[ 377MR ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Utilitarian, Typically Australian, Traditional Wagga
Owner: Mary and Max Robertson  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "Max and Mary liked camping with their 3 children and used the Wagga rugs on the camp stretchers in the tent."

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183.

[ 378MR ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Utilitarian, Typically Australian, Traditional Wagga
Owner: Mary and Max Robertson  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "Max and Mary liked camping with their 3 children and used the Wagga rugs on the camp stretchers in the tent."

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184.

[ 379MR ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Suffolk Puff
Owner: Mary Robertson  -  Country/Place Created: ENGLAND -  Date: Unknown
Story of Quilt: "Vida Myhill Taylor (maiden name unknown) came out from England and settled in Coolamon NSW. Quite late in life she married the Rev. Frederick Taylor. There were no children. Vida was known locally as a great seamstress and knitter. ..."

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185.

[ 380MR ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Suffolk Puff
Owner: Mary Robertson  -  Country/Place Created: ENGLAND -  Date: 1901 - 1920
Story of Quilt: "Following the death of her parents in England Lily Stormer (1899-1963) came to Australia with her brother in 1920. She went first to Sydney and then to Junee where she worked as a house-maid. In 1927 she married and there were 7..."

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186.

[ 381FB ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Mosaic, Hexagon
Owner: Fay Burgess  -  Country/Place Created: ENGLAND -  Date: 1901 - 1920
Story of Quilt: "Eliza Worth (later Hillyard) b. 1886 was a needlewoman to Queen Victoria, mending linen. Her daughter Ellen (later Knight) made corsets and it is thought that some of the silk hexagons were from off cuts of corsets. Maude, born..."

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187.

[ 383RA ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Repeat Block
Owner: Ruth Nash Allen  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "Ethel Nash Parton belonged to the church group, the Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Hurstville branch (Sydney). The church building was at the corner of Noble Street and Railway Parade. Allawah but..."

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188.

[ 384LO'G ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Repeat Block
Owner: Lynette O'Grady  -  Country/Place Created: USA -  Date: 1901 - 1920
Story of Quilt: "The quilt was made for my great aunt Lily Balmour (nee White). Lily was married to an American - Alma Balmour, who was an elder / Missionary in the Reorganised Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saint. She travelled with him for..."

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189.

[ 385MC ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Mosaic, Hexagon
Owner: Marie Colbron Conroy  -  Country/Place Created: PAPUA NEW GUINEA -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "The maker went from Sydney to Port Moresby following her marriage in 1938 to Eric Mitchell on the 'Bulolo'. She was repatriated to Sydney during the war. Her husband died as a POW. Phyllis remarried in Sydney about 1954 and..."

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190.

[ 386CW ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Frame
Owner: Colleen Whitaker  -  Country/Place Created: SHIPBOARD Ireland -  Date: pre 1850
Story of Quilt: "The family suggest that the reason the quilt was not finished (backed) may have related to the time available on the ship. If the quilt wasn't finished on arrival there wasn't time in the 'new country'. "This (the quilt) is..."

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