by Joanna Dermenjian | Sep 3, 2023 | Article, History, Red Cross
I am often asked what we know about how Canadian women went about completing the work of producing over 50,000,000 items for the war effort during WWII. Where did they meet, how did they organize, who was in charge, did they work on an assembly line, did they work to...
by Joanna Dermenjian | Aug 30, 2023 | Article, History, Research
This week, after finding the 1941 image of an underground hospital in London in wartime (posted on my IG account), I decided to look for more references to quilts in British newspapers. I found the article above in the Western News in Cardiff, Wales, dated August...
by Joanna Dermenjian | Jun 27, 2023 | Article, History, Research
One of my interests in considering Canadian women’s wartime charitable work in textiles, is the multigenerational practice of women sewing and knitting in wartime. In a recent display I did for Quilts Kingston 2023, I demonstrated briefly how three women in Kingston...
by Joanna Dermenjian | Mar 4, 2023 | Article, History, Research
Republished from THE CONVERSATION, February 2023 – Dr. Irene Gammel and Joanna Dermenjian In 1992, in Esher Library southwest of London, England, Josephine Andrews and her mother, Christine, collected blankets to donate to Kurdish refugees of the Gulf War. Among...
by Joanna Dermenjian | Jan 19, 2023 | Article, History, Research
Just about this time last year, in early 2022, I had the opportunity to share my research on Jo Andrews’ Haptic and Hue Podcast, in episode she called “Canada’s Forgotten Quilts”. Since that time, with Jo’s encouragement, I have dug deeper into the primary sources to...
by Joanna Dermenjian | Jan 8, 2023 | Article, History
In my investigation into the quilt-making by Canadian women during WW2, I am on the look-out for references to the materials used in charitable production of quilts and garments for Britain and Europe. I found one newspaper article that stated that the Red Cross urged...
