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Wartime Quilts Made by Men

A new exhibition of extraordinary quilts is coming to the The David Roche Foundation House Museum in Adelaide from February 16 to May 18, 2024, called Quilts, The Fabric of War: Appliqué and Geometric Masterpieces Made From Military Fabrics, from the Annette Gero Collection.

Most of the quilts have never been exhibited before and have only recently been discovered. Although many would have seen some of Annette Gero’s collection of wartime quilts before, these are all ‘newly found’. Even more extraordinary than what has been seen before, they make one wonder how they could

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