Quilt No.645ME - Margaret Eisenhauer
Owner:
Margaret Eisenhauer
Location:
NSW Riverina
Maker
Maker:
Isabella Donaldson ?
Made in
AUSTRALIA NSW
Patterms
Date:
1901 - 1920
Description:
Wholecloth quilt covered with floral cretonne both sides, deep pink and yellow flowers on cream background. Padding is hessian/jute type bags joined.
One of a pair but the other one is smaller.
1800 x 1325mm
One of a pair but the other one is smaller.
1800 x 1325mm
History:
The quilt was probably made by Isabella Donaldson in Temora NSW or Girgarry Vic after 1908. It then passed to Olive Donaldson and is now owned by Isabella's grand daughter, Margaret Eisenhauer. It is not used.
Story:
Isabella Donaldson lived at Girgarry (Goulburn Valley Vic) and was Margaret Eisenhauer's paternal grandmother. Margaret feels the sewing on the quilt, in part quite rough, indicates the 2 quilts were not made by Olive (Isabella's daughter-in-law, Margaret's mother) who was a beautiful seamstress.
Margaret, born 1925, recalls this quilt was always on her parents' bed.
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