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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Red covered school exercise book filled with notes on quilting and pencil drawn quilting patterns, with two loose pieces of brown paper, one with sketched floral pattern and the other ready cut-out as floral template. List of payments for quilting on last page, all made by Irene Morgan (nee Davies) quilter and later quilting teacher.
Irene Morgan, born in 1905, learned to quilt at Aberdare Technical College in 1928. The class was organized by the Rural Industries Bureau as part of a scheme to bring employment and to revive craft skills in the coalmining areas of south Wales. Quilting classes were set up in Aberdare, Porth, Merthyr Tydfil, Abertridwr, Splott in Cardiff, and Blaina. The young apprentices made quilts for the middle classes of Cardiff and for exclusive shops in London. The Bureau provided materials, tuition and customers for their products.
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