Arts: Crafts: Needlework: Embroidery: Community Projects

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  • 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.
  • 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
  • Heaton, Bradford, St Barnabas Millennium Tapestry - This millennium tapestry was organised through church groups, individual embroiderers chose their own techniques.
  • Kimpton Village - Millennium Tapestry - Ideas for a millennium tapestry were first discussed in September 1997. The design is a triptych depicting the villages - its features and activities.
  • Leeds Tapestry 2000 - Community art project embroidered to celebrate the millennium, consisting of 16 panels of needlework in a fabric collage.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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