Eye - 7 June 2019

Quaker bears explore Yearly Meeting

The Quaker bears exploring the children's programmes at Yearly Meeting. | Photo: Alison Meaton.

If you went down to Friends House last week, you were in for a big surprise… from two furry Friends in ‘plain dress’.

They explored Yearly Meeting and shared their journey on Twitter, via #QuakerBears, wearing tiny outfits in the fashion of early Friends, who strove, to quote William Penn, to wear clothes that were ‘simple and plain… neither unshapely, nor fantastical’.

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