Yesterday evening I attended the opening of an exhibition of fabric art held in Melville. The group is one my late wife Joan belonged to and I have quite a few wall hangings of her work in our house. The group is named Designing Women. Joan’s sister Dorothy is also heavily into fabric art and she had seven pieces on exhibition. I am not big on art in general, but a few of these pieces I found most interesting and attractive.
One of Dorothy’s was about her father’s hand-built house on his newly acquired farm in Western Australia’s wheatbelt. The photograph of the small house was surrounded by hessian (wheat bag) strands of wool (shearing sheep) and golden threads telling us that Ted McHugh was a gold miner near Kalgoorlie to raise the money to buy the farm block.
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