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Embroidery is the art or handicraft of decorating fabric or other materials with designs stitched in strands of thread or yarn using a needle. Embroidery may also incorporate other materials such as metal strips, pearls, beads, quills, and sequins.

Types of embroidery


Embroidery is classified according to its use of the underlying foundation fabric. One classification system divides embroidery styles according to the relationship of stitch placement to the fabric:

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404 /TITLE - In the Spring of 1999 schools throughout Britain were invited to complete a metre square of canvas to illustrate an element of life as it is lived by the children in their schools, reflecting their hopes and aspirations, opportunities and the issues that affect them locally, nationally or globally.
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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.

404 Bishampton Millennium Tapestry - The Diocese of Worcester tapestry designed to provide a permanent memento of the 20th century at St James' Church.

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

Ferring Millenium 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
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500 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.

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.

404 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.
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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.
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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.

Millennium Tapestry - Highfield Infants' School (Bromley, Kent UK) Millennium Tapestry
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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.

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.
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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.
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Sunbury Millennium Embroidery - The Millennium The Sunbury Millennium Embroidery 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.

404 The Burton Bradstock Village Web site Index Page - Burton Bradstock is in West Dorset on the SW coast of the UK. Doreen Crawford, chairwoman of the Tapestry Committee, gave an account of how every body had pulled together to make the tapestry.
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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 hand made 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.

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.'

U3A Millennium Tapestry - The story of the Market Harborough U3A Millennium Tapestry.
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404 Walton, St John's - The idea to make a banner to celebrate the Millennium started early in 1999 when the ladies who meet on Thursday mornings in the Church Centre decided they would like to make one to hang in St Johns Church.

Wells Millennium Tapestry at Wells Town Hall, Wells, Somerset, UK - A Millennium tapestry created by the Adult Education Community Classes in Wells, Somerset UK

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