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[ 723ES ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Mosaic, Square
Owner: Elsie Shephard - Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW - Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "Patchwork Rugs
When my husband was seriously hurt in a road accident in 1956 he was in hospital for a year then another two years recovering until he was fit enough to get a permanent job.
There were no Government handouts to..." |
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[ 724GPM ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Mosaic, Square
Owner: Griffith Pioneer Park Museum - Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW - Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "May's waggas
May Carter was born May Turner in 1919 at Cambeligo (near Wellington), the third of a family of twelve children. Her grandfather, Harry Turner, had already taken up an early farm at Hanwood in 1912 and May's family..." |
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[ 725CK ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Quilting as major design element, Greek
Owner: Christina Kazaglis - Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW - Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "Christina's Quilt
This quilt was made in the 1950s, for young Christina Athanasiadis, by her then future mother-in-law Maria Kazaglis. Maria knew that Christina's 'prika' (dowry) did not include a 'paploma' (quilt), so she bought..." |
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[ 726CK ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Quilting as major design element, Greek
Owner: Christina Kazaglis - Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW - Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "Maria's Quilt
Maria Kazaglis made this quilt for herself, in the 1930's, while living in the flat above their fruit shop in the inner Sydney suburb of Marrickville. This is a very long way from her 'topos' - Castellorizo, or its..." |
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[ 727CS ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Embroidered and/or Appliqued, Signature
Owner: Catherine Llewelyn-Smith - Country/Place Created: TURKEY Izmir (formerly Smyrna) - Date: 1901 - 1920
Story of Quilt: "A Remnant From Smyrna
This quilt remnant comes from the once-great city of Smyrna, now called Izmir, in Turkey, where Greeks had lived for hundreds of years, probably even back to 1000 BC and through the time of Alexander the..." |
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[ 728SH ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Quilting as major design element, Greek
Owner: Sophia Haskas - Country/Place Created: GREECE Rhodes - Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "A Paploma From Rhodes
This beautiful 'paploma' (quilt) was made in the city of Rhodes, capital of the well-known Greek island, and containing the world's best preserved medieval city. In true Greek tradition, Sophia Haskas'..." |
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[ 729NS ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Utilitarian, Typically Australian, Re-used clothing or blanket
Owner: Nancy Stinson - Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW - Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "The quilts were made by Nancy Stinson's mother, Sara Harborne (1893-1978) in about 1933.
Sara's husband was a school teacher and in 1931 the family went to Billinudgel. The children were Enid, Nancy and James. New Brighton Beach,..." |
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[ 730NS ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Utilitarian, Typically Australian, Re-used clothing or blanket
Owner: Nancy Stinson - Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW - Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "The quilts were made by Nancy Stinson's mother, Sara Harborne (1893-1978) in about 1933.
Sara's husband was a school teacher and in 1931 the family went to Billinudgel. The children were Enid, Nancy and James. New Brighton Beach,..." |
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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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[ 732HV ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Mosaic, Square
Owner: Helen Varoxis - Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW - Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "A Cessnock Quilt
Although this quilt was made in Cessnock, its origins are really in the NSW country town of Cootamundra where Helen Varoxis was born in 1916, and where, as a young woman, she began sewing and making..." |
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