The Quaker Tapestry


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The Quaker Tapestry is another huge community embroidery project which took 15 years to complete. Taking an average of two years to embroider a panel there are 77 panels each measuring 25″ (635mm) wide by 21″ (533mm) deep. The tapestry was instigated by Anne Wynn-Wilson and over 4,000 men, women …

Mourning Samplers


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I have been wandering about, down the paths of textile history, poking about in digital collections online and found a few snippits about the connections between mourning pictures and samplers. Around 1800 mourning samplers became not only popular but conventionalized. Mourning pictures heavily influenced mourning embroidery. So this is a …