Bura (Big Swamp) at Dusk
Perth, Western Australia
Materials and techniques: Silk raw-edged covered in synthetic tulle; hand and machine embroidery us...
Batemans Bay Bi-Centennial Patchwork Quilt
Batemans Bay South Coast New South Wales Australia
Embroidered quilt consists of central rectangle with scenes of Bullock team, Tollgate Islands—fishing, Clyde River bri...
Heidelberg Busy Bee Signature Quilt
Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
This redwork quilt is constructed from 213 white cotton squares and four distinctive sashings made from Torchon lace ins...
Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt (79 quilts)
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences , Sydney
The Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt is an evocative record of those who were lost to HIV, many of them in their 20s and 3...
Aboriginal Culture – Astronomy
Western Australia
Life for Noongar people was moderated by objects in the sky. Day time was signalled by Venus rising and the sun’s posi...
Aboriginal Culture: Six Seasons
Western Australia
The six Noongar seasons are signalled by: the night sky; the weather – dry and hot, hottest, cooler, coldest and w...
There was Once A River
Campbelltown NSW Australia
Technique: Cut and placed raw edged pieces hand sewn onto a backing with rough stitching using a thick thread. Screen pr...
Quilt set title: Noongar Country, Wetland Glimpses
Perth
01 Bura (Big Swamp) at Dusk by Meg Cowey. Records show that the wetlands of Perth seethed with birds at the beginning of...
Quilt of Hope
Eureka VIC Australia
Physical Description 80 hand and machine stitched square calico panels individually embellished with text and motifs usi...
Gumleigh Boys’ Home Quilt
Tumbarumba NSW Australia
Patchwork quilt made up of machine pieced squares and rectangles of cotton dress materials. The bac...
Gumleigh Boys’ Home Wagga No. 1
Tumbarumba NSW Australia
Utility quilt, machine pieced from mainly squares of dress materials in many different patterns. Th...
Hexagon Quilt
Imperial War Museum, London UK
This Girl Guide quilt was put together by a group of girls in Changi Prison. The guide group was started by Elizabeth En...
Gumleigh Boys’ Home Wagga No. 2
Tumbarumba NSW Australia
Utility patchwork quilt made up of mainly squares of furnishing material machine pieced. It is back...
Grandmother’s Flower Garden Quilt
VIC
This quilt was commenced in the 1930s by the members of the newly formed Mildura branch of the Country Women’s Ass...
