Eye - 09 January 2015

From peace postcards to new ways with old Friends

The stitched peace postcard. | Photo: Courtesy of Kate Wright.

Peace postcards

Bournemouth Quakers have threaded Friends’ into a local exhibition called ‘The unfolding war’.

Kate Wright told Eye the story, which began in November 2014 when ‘Bournemouth Libraries invited people to embroider a postcard to commemorate the 1914-18 war. Many embroidered postcards were sent by troops serving in France.

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