The Rajah Quilt is a large quilt that was created by women convicts in 1841 whilst travelling from Woolwich, England, to Hobart, Australia, using materials organised by Lydia Irving of the convict ship subcommittee of the British Ladies Society for Promoting the Reformation of Female Prisoners.

Lydia Irving served on Elizabeth Fry's British Ladies Society for promoting the reformation of female prisoners convict ship sub-committee and she had a financial success when she persuaded the Navy board to fund "gifts" for the convicts.

They had been assembled from across Britain, and they had been sentenced in Inverness, Aberdeen, Lincolnshire, Devon and the central criminal court.

The quilt includes a message embroidered in silk thread giving thanks to the "convict ship committee".

[6] The book Dangerous Women by Hope Adams (published by Michael Joseph in 2021) imagines the voyage of the Rajah and the making of the quilt.

George Sand refers to "toile de Perse à fond blanc" - Persian fabric on a white ground - in her novel Mauprat, set roughly in the 1750's.