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Marion Fletcher b. 1910

Curator (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)

Fletcher trained at the Edinburgh College of Art, arriving in Australia in 1947. She worked as a textile designer with Vida Turner, Melbourne, later teaching at the Melbourne Technical College. She later became curator of decorative arts (textiles) at the National Gallery of Victoria where she began to build their collection. She retired in 1972.

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Laura Jocic. “Marion Fletcher 1910-2012 curator and costume historian.” RMIT Design Archives Journal, 4:2, 2014, pp.4-13.
http://mams.rmit.edu.au/oy71che0tpjc1.pdf
Marion Fletcher. Costume in Australia 1788-1901. Oxford University Press, 1984.
Marion Fletcher. Female costume in the nineteenth century , Oxford University Press, 1966.
Marion Fletcher. Needlework in Australia : a history of the development of embroidery. Oxford University Press, 1989.
RMIT Design Archives Journal, Vol. 7 NO.1+2 2017, p.21
http://effersonal.issuu.com/rmitdesignarchives/docs/rda_journal_17_7.1_2_web_lr/93

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