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All Saints Church, Rotherfield Peppard
The Millenium Tapestry is located at the rear of the building. Scenes on the tapestry depict some of the features that characterise Peppard.

Amber Valley Millennium Banners
Over 3000 people of all ages and abilities have helped to make the banners. Each banner depicts the distinctive identity of local towns and villages and reflects the work and leisure activities of those living within them at the turn of the Millennium.

Bradford's Millenium Embroidery
Bradford on Avon's Millenium Tapestry. 12 panels mainly worked in chain stitch

Fornham All Saints - Millennium Tapestry
The Millennium Tapestry was conceived by Gloria Davies, designed by Malcolm Johnson and produced by thirteen villagers, both male and female, to mark the year 2000.

Heaton, Bradford, St Barnabas Millennium Tapestry
This millennium tapestry was organised through church groups, individual embroiderers chose their own techniques.

Helen M Stevens, True Embroideries
Helen's pure silk hand embroideries are in collections worldwide. Commissions are welcome - Helen also runs Masterclasses in her own unique style - a free class is available as a taster - and all silks, materials and tools are available online.

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 | Home
Leeds Tapestry is a community arts project embroidered to celebrate the millennium, consisting of 16 panels of needlework in a fabric collage. This fibre art piece not only includes traditional stitches including rag rugging, goldwork, stumpwork, couching, needleweaving and patchwork but also newer methods of embroidery such as computerized machine embroidery, printing on fabric and using vanishing muslin.

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.

Llanybri, West Wales
The original idea to create a "tapestry" depicting events in Llanybri district over the last two millennia, came originally from discussions held by "The Ladies Circle", a group of local ladies who meet on a regular basis.

Madeira Threads UK - The Madeira Millennium Embroidery
  Madeira UK Ltd commissioned the internationally renowned embroiderer, Linda Straw, in July 1995, to research, design, and embroider 1000 years of British History. The commission brief required Linda to involve as many other embroiderers from across the UK as possible.

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.

Millenium Tapestries
Here are the first photographs of the tapestries the ladies of Norton have been working on. They will be displayed in the village hall when completed.

Millenium Tapestry
This original work of art measuring 8ft x 4ft 8in (2.43 x 1.42m) depicts aspects of village life in Goring, Streatley and surrounding areas at the end of the twentieth century. Designed and hand-made entirely by local inhabitants, it comprises 565,882 stitches and involved some 2500 hours of work.

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