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Wholecloth Quilt

QLD

Wholecloth functional quilt. Cretonne type material both sides. Centre is a blanket with sheeting or cotton fabric sewn ...

Mary Studholme’s Wagga

VIC Australia

One side of this whole cloth quilt is a single piece of cretonne or similar with a pattern of autumn leaves. The other s...

Woollen Wagga

Brunswick West VIC Australia

The quilt is a simple design consisting of forty-eight 20 cm squares stitched together in rows of squares 6 x 8. The qui...

Woollen Wagga

Brunswick West VIC Australia

The Wagga is double sided and has an inner layer. It is in excellent condition. The Wagga contains a great variety of wo...

Wholecloth Quilt

Tumbarumba NSW Australia

Emily and Charles Clarke were married in 1890 and had 10 children. They lived all their lives at ‘Arneville’...

Bush Rug

Tumbarumba NSW Australia

Mrs. Toose’s husband was a draper and tailor and provided the sample books from which the quilts were made. Mrs. R...

Camping Wagga

Tumbarumba NSW Australia

The top is a wholecloth, coarse, bluish cotton, furnishing weight material, probably part of a curta...

Gumleigh Boys’ Home Wagga No. 1

Tumbarumba NSW Australia

Utility quilt, machine pieced from mainly squares of dress materials in many different patterns. Th...

Sugar Bag Quilt

ACT

Edith Perrott, born Bartholomew, (1879 -1970) of Tumbarumba NSW made this child’s quilt for her grand-daughter Ros...

Child’s Quilt

TAS

Child's quilt, reversible, top and ruffle of cotton patterned with pink and off white roses on a gre...

Cot Quilt

VIC

Wholecloth cot quilt of pink silk with an overall paisley pattern in grey and black. Pink-purple fri...

Utilitarian Cot Quilt

QLD

” Money was tight. It was cold and I made up something to keep him (my son) warm. My husband (first) was a shearer...

Medallion Quilt

QLD

This quilt was recoverd about 1920 to make it thicker but a lot of the material was eaten by mice and the rest turned to...

Wagga Rug

QLD

Joyce Lacey remembers sleeping under the quilt was uncomfortable due to the weight of it. The quilt has been used for mo...

‘Car Rug’ Quilt

VIC

“Miss Olive Budden, maker of this quilt, had access to offcuts from a coat factory. She made scores of quilts from...

Child’s Quilt

QLD

Eileen (Helen) Alexander used a treadle sewing machine, still in the family, to make this and other quilts and all famil...

Wholecloth Quilt

QLD

No other information but owner writes “The concept of a Wagga blanket has been adopted by family members in recent...

Wholecloth Quilt

NSW

“Mary Annie Whitehead was born in Lincolnshire UK in 1868 and died in 1953, having married Edwin Simon Whitehead a...

Old Curtains Quilt

QLD

“The wool for this was brought out during the depression years, to help the wool industry and also to help keep pe...

Wagga

QLD

Agnes made this quilt, and 2 others, for her son when he flatted with his mates. When the mates moved on they took 2 of ...

Wagga Padding

TAS

Helga Johansen (1898-1986) was born in Trondheim, Norway and the family came to Australia when she was 2. Margaret Lyons...

Camping Wagga

QLD

” This Wagga was made for camping. We didn’t have a car and we caught the train to the north or south coast ...

Utilitarian Quilt

VIC

Mary McGregor was born and married in Scotland and came to Australia with her husband and 3 children on the ship ‘...

Traditional Wagga Rug

NSW

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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