Tapestry panels at Greenham
The National Needlework Archive will host an exhibition of Quaker Tapestry panels
An exhibition of panels from the Quaker Tapestry is being held at one of the most iconic locations of peace witness in Britain. The National Needlework Archive, which will host the exhibition, is situated at the old Greenham Air Base near Newbury in Berkshire.
The twenty panels that are being exhibited will include those relating to conscientious objection and vigils for peace. Other panels that have been selected from the Quaker Tapestry in Kendal are those dealing with ecology, Quaker schools, persecution in Oxford, industrial welfare and railways. The panel ‘Keeping the Meeting’, which was made by members and attenders of Reading Meeting, will also be on display.
The Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, which began in September 1981, was established to protest at nuclear weapons being sited at RAF Greenham Common. In 1982 30,000 women joined hands around the base at the ‘Embrace the Base’ event. In April 1983 about 70,000 protesters formed a fourteen mile human chain from Greenham to Aldermaston and the ordnance factory at Burghfield. The last missiles left Greenham in 1991.
The exhibition at the National Needlework Archive will be open from 12 September to 10 October between Tuesday and Saturday.
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