Quaker Tapestry reaches out

The Quaker Tapestry to travel to Scotland and Northern Ireland

The Quaker Tapestry is on the road again – for the fifteenth successive year – travelling to Northern Ireland for the first time.

The 2015 roadshow will appear in Scotland first, at New Lanark Mills World Heritage Site in August, and then in September visit Northern Ireland where it will be on display in the Lisburn Museum and Irish Linen Centre in the centre of the town. Between them, the two venues are expected to attract more than 10,000 people. Several staff and volunteers from the Kendal-based tapestry museum will accompany the panels.

Tapestry manager Bridget Guest said: ‘We go to great lengths to take the tapestry out. It means more people can see it and this brings visitors back to Kendal for a proper visit.’

Twenty panels from the seventy-seven-strong collection will appear in this year’s roadshow, chosen in collaboration with the teams at the venues.

The Quaker Tapestry was produced between 1981 and 1996. It is the work of 4,000 men, women and children from around the world, and was made in the ‘narrative crewel embroidery’ style of the Bayeux Tapestry.

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