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Andrea Nierhoff

Melbourne Museum celebrates Victoria's rich Hellenic heritage with new exhibition

Effie Spiropoulos (left) and her family have contributed a decades-old family heirloom to a new Melbourne Museum exhibit. (ABC News: Dylan Anderson)

After almost 80 years, a blanket handmade by a then-teenage Effie Spiropoulos still looks as bright as ever.

It's a good thing — creating the masterpiece was arduous work, carried out by the light of an oil lamp in a small village in Greece.

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