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[ 767PHM ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Quilting as major design element
Owner: Powerhouse Museum - Country/Place Created: SCOTLAND - Date: 1851 - 1880
Quilt History: "The quilt was given to the Powerhouse Museum in 1988 by Lorraine and Erich Saikovski in memory of Margot Richards. It was brought to Australia from Scotland about 1860. It is used for research and exhibition purposes only." |
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[ 777SI ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Quilting as major design element, Greek
Owner: Stavroula Iouannou - Country/Place Created: CYPRUS - Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "Stavroula's Two Quilts
Unlike many other migrants of the time, Stavroula came to Australia by air in 1959, but her two paplomata (quilts) arrived a little later by boat. Stavroula's mother, Efpraxia, anxious that her daughter's..." |
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[ 778SI ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Quilting as major design element, Greek
Owner: Stavroula Ioannou - Country/Place Created: CYPRUS - Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "Stavroula's Two Quilts
Unlike many other migrants of the time, Stavroula came to Australia by air in 1959, but her two paplomata (quilts) arrived a little later by boat. Stavroula's mother, Efpraxia, anxious that her daughter's..." |
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[ 779MA ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Quilting as major design element, Greek
Owner: Maria Ahilas - Country/Place Created: GREECE Lesvos - Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "A Paploma from Mytilini
Maria Loutragoto, as a young woman in her twenties, was preparing, in 1963, to leave her village of Paliokipo on the beautiful Gulf of Yera, Lesvos, Greece's third largest island, to make the long journey to..." |
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[ 781IC ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Quilting as major design element
Owner: Irene Copping - Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW - Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "Mrs. Martha Thomason Robson came to Australia from Durham England with her family in 1928. She was a dressmaker and skilled in many forms of needlework. It is thought the design on the quilt was pre stamped in Durham and the quilt..." |
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[ 793MO ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Quilting as major design element
Owner: With held as requested - Country/Place Created: IRELAND County Kerry - Date: 1851 - 1880
Story of Quilt: "The Hanora Brosnan Quilt.
Born in 1827 at Ballinvariscal, Castleisland, Co. Kerry, Hanora Brosnan was the third child and eldest daughter of Timothy 'Wig' Brosnan and Mary Slattery.
Sometime in the 1830s the family moved to..." |
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[ 798AN ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Quilting as major design element, Greek
Owner: Agapi Naoumidis - Country/Place Created: GREECE Florina - Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "Agapi's Paploma
Agapi Naoumidis' beautiful, deep burgundy quilt was made in Florina, set in the mountainous, northern Greek mainland, west of Thessaloniki. That is where, back in the 1930s Agapi, much against her father's wishes,..." |
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[ 799GN ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Quilting as major design element, Greek
Owner: Guna Naoumidis - Country/Place Created: GREECE Florina - Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "Guna's Paploma
Guna Naoumidis was very young when she and her parents arrived at the Bonegilla migrant camp, near Albury NSW, to begin their new, uncertain life in Australia. Edgar and Elga Grislis had fled from their homeland..." |
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[ 800DP ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Quilting as major design element, Greek
Owner: Despina Petridis - Country/Place Created: GREECE Samos - Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "A Paploma From Samos
In 1962 Despina Petridis left Vathi, the capital of the Greek island of Samos, well known for its natural beauty, to come to Canberra, Australia's capital. Her mother, Gramatiki Zonous was very reluctant to..." |
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[ 801DA ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Quilting as major design element, Greek
Owner: Dora Andonaros - Country/Place Created: GREECE Lemnos - Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "Dora's Paploma
In 1957 Mary (Zaimis) Kalenteridis came to Australia with her three daughters, Kristalo, Dora (Theodora), and Ellie, leaving behind their village of Atsiki, on the beautiful north Aegean island of Lemnos, Mary's..." |
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