Community Embroidery Needlework Crafts

Community Embroidery is a project worked by many people for their community and others to enjoy.

• Quorn Embroidery - Images of Quorn 2000 is the interpretation by six Quorn embroideries who responded to the Parish Council Chairman's plea for villagers to produce a Parish Map for Quorn.
  
• Ravenstonedale, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria - The project involves the creation of 4 embroidered panels to mark the millennium in the parish of Ravenstonedale. Each panel has a distinct theme related to the parish and a secondary seasonal theme.
  
• Martinstown - It is a tiny place near Dorchester with a stream running between the road and the cottages. The country round is rich in the turf-covered tombs of an immemorial ancestry.
  
• Ferring Millennium Project - The Millennium is celebrated in artistic form with many of Ferring's residents and societies creating tapestries to depict Ferring in West Sussex, England, at the turn of the century
  
• The Harris Tapestry - The Harris Tapestry consists of 8 individual panels. Each panel depicts a different area of the Isle of Harris. The tapestry is all handmade and only local natural fibres have been used.
  
• Sunbury Millennium Embroidery - This project is intended as a permanent, commemorative record which celebrates the ancient riverside village of Sunbury-on-Thames and its community at the turn of the year 2000.
  
• Leeds Tapestry 2000 - Community art project embroidered to celebrate the millennium, consisting of 16 panels of needlework in a fabric collage.
  
• Bradford's Millennium Embroidery - Bradford on Avon's Millennium Tapestry. 12 panels mainly worked in chain stitch
  
• Millennium Tapestry - The Millennium Tapestry A number of local schools, including Prior Park First School, Lowick First School, Holy Trinity First School, Berwick Middle School and The Grove School, were asked to create tapestries to celebrate the Millennium.
  
• New Page 1 - The Millennium Tapestry was designed and made by all the children at Slaley First School, and was completed in the summer of 2000.  It was exhibited at Alnwick Castle and Hexham Abbey, and now hangs in the School Hall.
  
• Heaton, Bradford, St Barnabas Millennium Tapestry - This millennium tapestry was organised through church groups, individual embroiderers chose their own techniques.
  
• The Overlord Embroidery - The Overlord Embroidery is a unique 83-metre-long textile tribute to the sacrifice and heroism of those who took part in Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, on 6 June 1944.
  
• All Saints Church, Rotherfield Peppard - The Millennium Tapestry is located at the rear of the building. Scenes on the tapestry depict some of the features that characterise Peppard.
  
• This is Guernsey - Out and About - Millennium Tapestry - Index - 'Undoubtedly Guernsey's most successful millennium project, the 10 panels of the Millennium Tapestry went on public display at St James in early 2002 after four years in the making.'
  
• Lewes, Christ Church - The Embroidery took 3 years to make and was ready in time for the Millennium, the three panel embroidery is displayed at Christ Church in Prince Edward's Road, Lewes.
  
  

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