Quilt No.156WCQ - Wangaratta Centre Quilters Inc

Wangaratta Centre Quilters Inc
Owner: 
Wangaratta Centre Quilters Inc
Location: 
Vic North East
Maker
Maker: 
Jessie Waldron
Made in
AUSTRALIA VIC
Date: 
1921 - 1940
Description: 
Irregularly patched from a variety of cotton dress prints, checks, plains and mattress ticking. 1920s and 30s fabrics. Both top and back are similar. Hessian padding. Originally two single quilts, now stitched together.
1850 x 1720mm
History: 

Made by Jessie Waldron in the Sunraysia district of Victoria. Given to the Wangaratta Centre Quilters by Jessie's son Ted Waldron and his wife Fran.

Story: 

"Donated to Centre Quilters by Ted and Fran Waldron, Wangaratta. The quilt was made by Ted's mother, Jessie, who lived in the Sunraysia district of Victoria. - the centre of the dried friut industry. The 'batting' in the quilt is hessian - presumably hessian which was used on the drying racks. It appears that this quilt was originally made as 2 single bed quilts and joined together at a later date."
[June Brown for Wangaratta Centre Quilters Inc 5.11.96]

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