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Embroiderers' Guild of WA > Records

QUILTING, MACHINE, PICTURE

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2017

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This hand free-machine embroidered quilt, ‘Balbuk’s Country: Swan River Crossing c1835’ by Hilary Arber, is one of 15 designed and stitched by WA Inspired Art Quilters for an exhibition, acknowledging and celebrating the life of Fanny Balbuk Yooreel, a Noongar aboriginal activist in the 19th century and her aboriginal culture.
The quilt is the artist’s freehand interpretation of a plan of a canal and islands of the Swan River, drawn by Thomas Watson circa 1835. The group of Heirisson Islands, with the southern large one called Mattagerup (meaning knee-deep), were a well-used route for aborigines, their fishing and crab collecting.
Free machine quilting and couching on organza overlays. Computer text printing on silk organza are the names of the main islands in the Heirisson group in the Swan River..

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cwa-org-78-2017.45

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Width

550 mm

Height or length

510 mm

Year

Embroiderers' Guild of WA

Embroiderers' Guild of WA

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