Quaker tapestry

The Quaker Tapestry consists of 77 panels illustrating the history of Quakerism from the 17th century up to the present day. The idea of Quaker Anne Wynn-Wilson, the tapestry has a permanent home at the Friends Meeting House at Kendal, Cumbria, England.

Related Topics:
Quakerism - Kendal - Cumbria - England

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4000 men, women and children from 15 countries worked on the panels between 1981 and 1996. The Tapestry is worked in crewel embroidery, and a special Quaker stitch was invented for it.

Related Topics:
1981 - 1996 - Crewel embroidery

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List of some panels:

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• 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 objection (A7)
• Oaths (A9)
• George Fox travels to Sedbergh (B1)
• Mary Fisher, Elizabeth Hooton (B2)
• John Bright (B3)
• Publishers of Truth (B4)
• Stephen Grellet (B5)
• Woodbrooke, Selly Oak, Birmingham (B6)
• Quaker Peace Action caravan (B8)
• Swarthmoor Hall, Ulverston (C1)
• Margaret Fell, Mother of Quakerism (C2)
• Keep your meetings (C3)
• Meeting Houses (C4)
• Meeting houses overseas (C5)
• Quaker schools (C7)
• Marriage (C8)
• Quaker Pilgrimages (C9)
• The Leaveners (C11)
• George Fox at Lichfield (D1)
• Quaker Simplicity (D2)
• Personal Devotion (D3)
• Coalbrookdale (D4)
• Innocent Trades (D5)
• Quaker merchants (D6)
• Railways (D7)
• Quaker botanists (D8)
• Quaker Doctors (D9)
• Quaker scientists (D10)
• Industrial Welfare (D11)
• Query 19 (D12)
• Fox at Ulverston
• John Bellers (E2)
• Bankering (E3)
• Elizabeth Fry (E5)
• Elizabeth Fry and the Patchwork Quilts (E6)
• First-day schools (E7)
• The Great Hunger (E8)
• Mary Hughes (E9)
• Unemployment (E10)
• Friends' Provident Institution (E11)
• 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 Railway (F10)
• William Penn and Pennsylvania (F11)
• 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)
• Friends and the Boer War (F19)
• Tasmania (F20)
• Friends in Canada (F21)
• World Family and Friends (Final Panel)
 
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