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{{Short description|Embroidery depicting the history of Quakerism}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=February 2023}} {{Quakers vertical}} The '''Quaker Tapestry''' consists of 77 panels illustrating the history of [[Religious Society of Friends|Quakerism]] from the 17th century to the present day. The idea of Quaker Anne Wynn-Wilson, the tapestry has a permanent home at the [[Friends Meeting House, Kendal|Friends Meeting House]] at [[Kendal]], [[Cumbria]], England. The design was heavily influenced by the [[Bayeux Tapestry]], and includes similar design choices, including three horizontal divisions within panels, embroidered outlines for faces and hands, and solid infilling of clothing, which is embroidered in the Bayeux technique. The tapestry is worked in [[crewel embroidery]] using woollen yarns on a handwoven woollen background. In addition to using four historic and well-known stitches ([[Backstitch|split stitch]], [[Backstitch|stem stitch]], [[chain stitch]] and Peking knot), Wynn-Wilson invented a new corded stitch, known as Quaker stitch, to allow for tight curves on the lettering. Each panel measures {{convert|25|in|cm}} wide by {{convert|21|in|cm}} tall. 4,000 men, women and children from 15 countries worked on the panels between 1981 and 1989.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youthquakenow.com/pages/50-first-panel-of-the-quaker-tapestry/50/37 |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=www.youthquakenow.com}}</ref> Panels have been toured in traveling exhibitions including a North American tour in 1993/1994. An exhibition of 39 panels in [[Ely Cathedral]] in 2012 attracted 11,273 visitors during its 27-day stay. In October 2021, the museum was one of 142 sites across England to receive part of a Β£35-million injection into the government's [[Culture Recovery Fund]].<ref>[https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/news/heritage-and-craft-workers-across-england-given-a-helping-hand/ "Heritage and Craft Workers Across England Given a Helping Hand"] β [[Historic England]], 22 October 2021</ref> ==List of the panels== {{div col|colwidth=21em}} # The Prism (Title Panel) # [[George Fox]]'s convincement (A1) # [[James Nayler]]'s call to ministry (A2) # [[James Parnell]]: Meetings for Sufferers (A3) # Richard Sellar (A4) # The good ship 'Woodhouse' (A5) # [[John Woolman]] (A6) # [[Conscientious objector|Conscientious objection]] (A7) # Manchester Conference 1895 (A8) # [[Oath]]s (A9) # George Fox travels to [[Sedbergh]] (B1) # [[Mary Fisher (missionary)|Mary Fisher]], [[Elizabeth Hooton]] (B2) # [[John Bright]] (B3) # Publishers of Truth (B4) # [[Stephen Grellet]] (B5) # [[Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre|Woodbrooke]], [[Selly Oak]], [[Birmingham]] (B6) # Service Overseas (B7) # Quaker Peace Action caravan (B8) # [[Swarthmoor Hall]], Ulverston (C1) # [[Margaret Fell]], Mother of Quakerism (C2) # Keep your meetings (C3) # [[Friends meeting house|Meeting houses]] (C4) # Meeting Houses overseas (C5) # Meeting Houses in the Community (C6) # Quaker schools (C7) # [[Quaker wedding|Marriage]] (C8) # Pilgrimages (C9) # Children and Young People (C10) # [[The Leaveners]] (C11) # George Fox at [[Lichfield]], [[Pendle Hill]] (D1) # Quaker [[Testimony of Simplicity|Simplicity]] (D2) # Personal Devotion (D3) # [[Coalbrookdale]] (D4) # Innocent Trades (D5) # Quaker merchants (D6) # Railways (D7) # Quaker [[Botanist]]s (D8) # Quaker Doctors (D9) # Quaker Scientists (D10) # Industrial Welfare (D11) # Query 19 (D12) # [[Scott Bader Commonwealth]] (D13) # Fox at [[Ulverston]] (E1) # [[John Bellers]] (E2) # Banking (E3) # [[Criminal Justice]] (E4) # [[Elizabeth Fry]] (E5) # Elizabeth Fry and the [[Patchwork]] [[Quilt]]s (E6) # First-day schools (E7) # The [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Great Hunger]] (E8) # [[Mary Hughes (social worker)|Mary Hughes]] (E9) # [[Unemployment]] (E10) # [[Friends Provident|Friends' Provident Institution]] (E11) # [[William Allen (English Quaker)|William Allen]] (E12) # [[Derby]] Gaol (F1) # Trial of Penn and Meade (F2) # Early Friends and [[slavery]] (F3) # [[Daniel Wheeler]] (F4) # Delegation to the Czar (F5) # Relief Work: [[British Isles]] (F6) # Relief of suffering (F7) # [[Friends' Ambulance Unit]] (F8) # Reconciliation (F9) # [[Underground Railroad|Underground Railway]] (F10) # [[William Penn]] and [[Pennsylvania]] (F11) # [[North America|America]] and [[Milford Haven]] meeting (F12) # Quakers in [[Dolgellau]] (F13) # Quakerism in [[New Zealand]] (F14) # Workcamps (F15) # Building the institutions of [[Peace]] (F16) # Vigils for Peace (F17) # World Conference 1991 (F18) # Friends and the [[Boer War]] (F19) # [[Tasmania]] (F20) # Friends in [[Canada]] (F21) # The Netherlands 1940β1945 (F22) # World Family of Friends (Final Panel) {{div col end}} ==Further reading== *1990, Greenwood, Ormerod and Wynn-Wilson, Anne, ''The Quaker Tapestry'' {{ISBN|0-245-60017-5}} *1998, Milligan, Edward, ''Pictorial Guide to the Quaker Tapestry'' {{ISBN|0-9525433-1-1}} *1999, Levin, Jennie, ''Living Threads: Making the Quaker Tapestry'' {{ISBN|0-9525433-3-8}} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *[http://www.quaker-tapestry.co.uk Quaker Tapestry] {{embroidery}} {{tapestry}} {{Religious Society of Friends}} {{coord|54.32849|N|2.74297|W|type:landmark_region:GB|display=title}} [[Category:Embroidery]] [[Category:History of Quakerism]] [[Category:Modern tapestries]] [[Category:1989 works]] [[Category:Museums in Cumbria]] [[Category:Textile museums in the United Kingdom]] [[Category:Religious museums in England]] [[Category:Tourist attractions in Cumbria]] [[Category:1989 in England]] [[Category:English design]]
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