by Joanna Dermenjian | Jun 30, 2025 | Artifacts, History, Research
I know – the image is blurry. But you get the gist of it. This embroidery pattern was published in Canadian newspapers in 1947. The Canadian National Exhibition or ‘CNE’, was reopening in 1947, after being closed from 1942-46 when the grounds were in...
by Joanna Dermenjian | Jun 25, 2024 | Article, Artifacts, History
“My 100-year-old friend Joan died recently, and I am trying to sort her belongings. I have a quilt that was given to her during the war; she told me that it had come from Canada and that when she first had it there was a note saying where it had come from. It is in...
by Joanna Dermenjian | Feb 6, 2024 | Article, Labels, Red Cross, Research
In the April 1987 issue of ‘Canada Quilts’, a letter to the editor was published from a British woman, Pauline Adams, who was looking for information about quilts made in Canada during the Second World War, that had been shipped to Britain. Pauline wrote: “There seem...
by Monika Modersitzki | Nov 21, 2023 | Guest Blogger
Joanna’s note: This month, I have invited Monika Modersitzki as a guest blogger, to relay this amazing story about wartime quilts found in Germany forty years after the war ended. This article and the photos are provided by Monika, with links to where you may...
by Joanna Dermenjian | Sep 21, 2023 | History
Quilts tell stories. Quilt tell stories about who made them. The designs, the colours, the materials used, the patterns in the fabric, the quality of the construction and stitching, all tell us something about the person or group who made it. Quilts from wartime also...
