Quilt No.1110DK - Dorothy Kinloch
Owner:
Dorothy Kinloch
Location:
WA Perth
Maker
Maker:
Member of the Daly family
Made in
AUSTRALIA VIC
Patterms
Date:
1941 - 1970
Description:
Miniature eiderdown or quilt made for a doll's bed. Wholecloth in polished cotton medium pink floral with rose pink plain frill. Machine made. The front is a floral rectangle with mitred corners and a floral border finished with a plain frill. The back is all floral including the frill. The quilt is filled with feathers. It is quilted. 4350 x 6150mm
History:
The quilt was made for, and given to, Dorothy Bell (later Kinloch) approximately 1942 or 1943 by a member of the Daly family, Melbourne.
Story:
The owner recalls "I don't remember the quilt being given to me so I must have been young, however I do recall it always being in my room, or in my dolls cot or in the dolls pram. The pram had been my cousin Nancy Murray's and was passed on to me, as dolls prams were unavailable during the war.
I do remember my mother Helen (Reid) Bell impressing on me several times over the years that it was 'filled with real feathers'." [Dorothy Kinloch 20.8.02]
The owner Dorothy Bell, later Kinloch
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