Crazy Patchwork Cot Quilt

Crazy patchwork cot quilt made from a wide variety of materials, patterned and plain. Some seams are overstitched with feather stitch and herringbone. One of a pair. There is no padding. The backing is taffeta. 2000 x 1500 mm...

Hexagon Quilt

Cotton patchwork cover constructed from hand sewn hexagons (65mm) in cotton and linen furnishing materials. The curved edges are bound with blue and cream printed striped cotton. The backing material is not visible. 941 x 261 mm...

Log Cabin Quilt

Machine constructed log cabin quilt using a wide variety of strips of used clothing including cottons, men's suitings and wools. Each square is about 250mm and arranged in the 'light and dark of the fire' variation of log cabin. There is no padding. The backing is brown twill ...

Skin Rug

Skin rug, probably rabbit. Centre backs of 72 fine winter skins used, 6 skins across and 9 in length. Exceptionally well matched and very supple tanning. Blue baize backing with traditional scalloped edge. Brown rat tail braid 90mm from the edge on the back and also a centre desi...

Suiting Samples Child’s Coverlet

Child's coverlet, made from suiting samples sewn in a patchwork effect. This small quilt is machine stitched and made from suiting samples which have come from two styles of sample books. The colours are predominantly in blues and blue-grey. The quilt has been back...

Unfinished Crazy Quilt

Unfinished crazy patchwork quilt. Materials are mainly silk, velvet, woven ribbons, woven brocades. Hand embroidery using many different stitches also machine embroidery eg frog. Some individual patches have names, initials, dates probably relating to family membe...

Mary Studholme’s Wagga

One side of this whole cloth quilt is a single piece of cretonne or similar with a pattern of autumn leaves. The other side is patched pieces of curtaining. The padding is old clothing, mainly knits, with some pieces of men's suiting showing through tears in the backin, and tac...

Possum Skin Rug

Possum skin rug constructed from 24 rectangular pieces hand stitched to a dark brown felt backing and couched on other side to faded blue silk tape. Nineteen possum tails similarly attached to felt backing dangle around three sides of the rug. All felt edges are scalloped. ...

Possum Skin Rug

Possum skin rug made from rows of possum pelts sewn to a woollen blue checked blanket. 1720 x 1370 mm...

The Kangaroo rug

Kangaroo skin rug made from 22 pieces of kangaroo pelt, 4 pieces across each end of the rug and 2 larger pieces making up panels in the central portion of the rug. Pelts are hand stitched together. Backing of burgundy felt has been attached by hand stitching. The navy edging a...

Auntie Green’s Quilt

Wholecloth quilt, with appliqué patterns in printed coloured cottons, of a central flower basket in an oval leaf border, appliquéd leaf and flower branches, a twisted cable border, wider band of leaf and flower branches, and a final border of applique Greek key motif. The base...

Medallion Quilt

Rectangular quilt of print and plain cottons pieced in squares and rectangles within 2 frames, the inner border or frame of blue/green check material, then 2 rows of squares and rectangles, the outer frame of a grey and red geometric pattern and 2 rows of squares or rectangles. B...

Mosaic Patchwork Quilt

Quilt of hand-sewn mosaic patchwork, with square and lozenge shapes (5cm square in centre with 4 lozenges each side, lozenges 9cm x 4cm). The top has been folded down the middle and joined along 3 edges and whipstitched together so that the quilt has one straight long side and 3 ...

Blue and White Log Cabin Quilt

Quilt top of log cabin blocks in white and faded blue cotton twill. The blocks are joined so that the blue sections meet. The blocks are backed with flannel and the quilt is edged with blue binding, machine and hand sewn. 2050 x 1860 mm...

Embroidered Iris Quilt

Cotton blocks set on point embroidered in satin stitch, all blocks embroidered with a pattern of bearded irises in pale lemon, green, white. Alternate blocks battenburg-style cotton-lace stitched together linking blocks. Cotton torchon lace edging. 2020 x 1950 mm...

Log Cabin Quilt

Quilt of log cabin blocks, hand pieced on to foundation fabric of white cotton. Each block consists of 4 logs per side, in 1cm strips, with 3cm centres. Blocks are mostly divided into dark and light prints, with red, blue, white, pink predominating, and dark colours meeting toget...

Silk Hexagon Quilt

"…..quilt of silk hexagonal patches with a velvet panel as the centrepiece with petit point embroidery. The silk materials are a valuable source of textile history being very variable in weaves and patterns. The patchwork templates are still in situ and are [possibly] of a [typ...

1906 Berry Show Signature Quilt

[The quilt] is a plain white linen double bed sheet or bedcover on which have been embroidered (over autographed signatures) the names of members of various associations and clubs, local MPs, visiting dignitaries etc. associated with the Berry Agricultural Show of 1906. There are...

Rabbit Skin Rug

Rabbit skins sewn on to dark blue felt. Skins have been arranged to give a patterned effect. Centre has a rectangular lighter coloured skin with a further rectangle of darker colour in the centre. Skins are handsewn, with rat-tail braid on the reverse side. Blue felt has a pinked...

English Patchwork Quilt

"English patchwork pieces. Hand pieced by at least two people. Made from scraps, cut down clothing and sheeting. Backing made from shirtings, dress fabrics, furnishing fabric and ticking. No synthetics. Machine quilted. Condition, fragile….." [Dubbo Museum] ...

Silk Tumbling Block Quilt

Pure silk, hand sewn Tumbling Block quilt incorporating a great variety of silks in plains, florals and stripes. The backing is large rectangles of striped silks or polished cottons. It is hand quilted in a simple square cross hatch [design]. 1470 x 790 mm...

Suffolk Puff Quilt

The quilt is double bed size, white, damask type material with a pale pink light cotton backing. The quilt itself is made up of rectangular pieces which are laid out in a pattern and joined to each other with 'suffolk puff' patches of the same white material. The ...

Loved

The pattern is log cabin and it is made from dress materials and pyjama flannelette. The original filling was a heavy woollen blanket (now flannelette) and the backing is green headcloth - all government issue. With its restoration, the backing was supplemented wi...

Log Cabin Patchwork Pieces

Log cabin patchwork pieces (2) with each block approximately 120 x 120mm. They are diagonally divided into light and dark side. Materials are mainly silks including silk velvets. Each block is stitched on to a backing square, pieces of old blanket, woollens, cotto...