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Amber Valley Millennium Banners
Over 3000 people of all ages and abilities have helped to make the banners. Each banner depicts the distinctive identity of local towns and villages and reflects the work and leisure activities of those living within them at the turn of the Millennium.
http://www.ambervalley.gov.uk/community/banners/banners.asp
Sunbury Millennium Embroidery
The Millennium The Sunbury Millennium Embroidery is intended as a permanent, commemorative record which celebrates the ancient riverside village of Sunbury-on-Thames and its community at the turn of the year 2000.
http://www.sunburyembroidery.co.uk/
Ferring Millenium Project
The Ferring Millennium is celebrated in artistic form with many of Ferring's residents and societies creating tapestries to depict Ferring in West Sussex, England, at the turn of the century
http://www.ferringvillage.co.uk/millennium-project.htm
The Diocese of Worcester - Press Release
The idea for the Tapestry came from the Bishampton Millennium Group and is designed to provide a permanent memento of the 20th century at St James' Church.
http://www.cofe-worcester.org.uk/media/press_releases/lp19_dw002.html
Millennium Tapestry
The Millennium Tapestry A number of local schools, including Prior Park First School, Lowick First School, Holy Trinity First School, Berwick Middle School and The Grove School, were asked to create tapestries to celebrate the Millennium.
http://www.tweedmouthpriorpark.northumberland.sch.uk/millennium_tapestry.htm
Fornham All Saints - Millennium Tapestry
The Millennium Tapestry was conceived by Gloria Davies, designed by Malcolm Johnson and produced by thirteen villagers, both male and female, to mark the year 2000.
http://www.gallerie.co.uk/fornham/church_tapestry.htm
Off the tapestry Introduction
Hockwold-cum-Wilton Millennium Tapestry - Year 2000 was created from an idea by Michael and Shirley Denney after they saw the Tapestries of the Occupation in St. Helier whilst on holiday in Jersey in October 1995.
http://www.hockwold-cum-wilton.org/History/offthetapestryintro.htm
The Burton Bradstock Village Web site Index Page
Burton Bradstock is in West Dorset on the SW coast of the UK. Doreen Crawford, chairwoman of the Tapestry Committee, gave an account of how every body had pulled together to make the tapestry.
http://www.burtonbradstock.org.uk/index.html
The Harris Tapestry
The Harris Tapestry consists of 8 individual panels. Each panel depicts a different area of the Isle of Harris. The tapestry is all hand made and only local natural fibres have been used.
http://virtualhebrides.com/harris_tapestry/tapestry.htm
Millenium Tapestries
Here are the first photographs of the tapestries the ladies of Norton have been working on. They will be displayed in the village hall when completed.
http://www.nortonjuxtatwycross.org.uk/milenium_tapestries.htm
All Saints Church, Rotherfield Peppard
The Millenium Tapestry is located at the rear of the building. Scenes on the tapestry depict some of the features that characterise Peppard.
http://www.allsaintspeppard.org.uk/tour/tour5.htm
Bradford's Millenium Embroidery
Bradford on Avon's Millenium Tapestry. 12 panels mainly worked in chain stitch
http://www.communigate.co.uk/wilts/bradfordonavonpreservationtrust/page9.phtml
Llanybri, West Wales
The original idea to create a "tapestry" depicting events in Llanybri district over the last two millennia, came originally from discussions held by "The Ladies Circle", a group of local ladies who meet on a regular basis.
http://www.carmarthencounty.co.uk/llanybri/pages/panels.htm
Leeds Tapestry 2000 | Home
Leeds Tapestry is a community arts project embroidered to celebrate the millennium, consisting of 16 panels of needlework in a fabric collage. This fibre art piece not only includes traditional stitches including rag rugging, goldwork, stumpwork, couching, needleweaving and patchwork but also newer methods of embroidery such as computerized machine embroidery, printing on fabric and using vanishing muslin.
http://www.leedstapestry.org.uk/01_home.php
Heaton, Bradford, St Barnabas Millennium Tapestry
This millennium tapestry was organised through church groups, individual embroiderers chose their own techniques.
http://www.fgco.com/tap/churches.htm
The Overlord Embroidery
The Overlord Embroidery is a unique 83-metre-long textile tribute to the sacrifice and heroism of those who took part in Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, on 6 June 1944.
http://www.ddaymuseum.co.uk/overlord.htm
Quorn Embroidery
Images of Quorn 2000 is the interpretation by six Quorn embroideries who responded to the Parish Council Chairman's plea for villagers to produce a Parish Map for Quorn.
http://www.quorndon.com/images-of-quorn/welcome.html
Lewes, Christ Church
The Embroidery took 3 years to make and was ready in time for the Millennium, the three panel embroidery is displayed at Christ Church in Prince Edward's Road, Lewes.
http://freespace.virgin.net/nick.armstrong/Embroidery.htm
Ravenstonedale, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria
The project involves the creation of 4 embroidered panels to mark the millennium in the parish of Ravenstonedale. Each panel has a distinct theme related to the parish and a secondary seasonal theme.
http://www.ravenstonedale.org/general/millennium/embroidery/index.htm
Walton, St John's
The idea to make a banner to celebrate the Millennium started early in 1999 when the ladies who meet on Thursday mornings in the Church Centre decided they would like to make one to hang in St Johns Church.
http://www.stjohnswalton.co.uk/Documents/millenium_banner.htm
The Guild
On 20th October, 1998, Dunnichen, Letham and Kirkden Church Guild held an open meeting to look at the book of Ephesians with a view to making a banner.
http://www.lethamchurches.free-online.co.uk/groups/guild/guild1.htm
The Golden Tapestry
The vision of The Millennium Tapestry was to celebrate the times we live in from the vantage point of the millennium, but through the eyes of children, to illustrate an element of life as lived by the children in their schools, reflecting their hopes, aspirations, opportunities and the issues that affected them, local, national or global.
http://www.millennium-tapestry.co.uk/millenniumtapestry.html
Madeira Threads UK - The Madeira Millennium Embroidery
 Madeira UK Ltd commissioned the internationally renowned embroiderer, Linda Straw, in July 1995, to research, design, and embroider 1000 years of British History. The commission brief required Linda to involve as many other embroiderers from across the UK as possible.
http://www.madeira.co.uk/millennium/index.html
Rannoch Net - Primary School - Millennium Tapestry< /TITLE>
In the Spring of 1999 schools throughout Britain were invited to complete a metre square of canvas to illustrate an element of life as it is lived by the children in their schools, reflecting their hopes and aspirations, opportunities and the issues that affect them locally, nationally or globally.
http://www.rannoch.net/millennium-tapestry/index.htm
U3A Millennium Tapestry
The story of the Market Harborough U3A Millennium Tapestry.
http://www.bigfern.btinternet.co.uk/u3atapestry.htm
Wells Millennium Tapestry at Wells Town Hall, Wells, Somerset, UK
A Millennium tapestry created by the Adult Education Community Classes in Wells, Somerset UK
http://www.wellstapestry.co.uk/
This is Guernsey - Out and About - Millennium Tapestry - Index
'Undoubtedly Guernsey's most successful millennium project, the 10 panels of the Millennium Tapestry went on public display at St James in early 2002 after four years in the making.'
http://www.thisisguernsey.com/code/showarticle.pl?ArticleID=000149
Millennium Tapestry
The Long Buckby Millennium Tapestry is now on display in the Community Centre. It is the work of Long Buckby Women's Institute and Friends of the Village. Â It was designed by Judith North and depicts churches, shops, and other places of interest in Long Buckby - past and present!
http://www.ksad.demon.co.uk/buckby/Specials/tap.htm
Kimpton Village - Millennium Tapestry
Ideas for a millennium tapestry were first discussed in September 1997. Â The design is a triptych depicting the villages - its features and activities.
http://www.teesfamily.fsnet.co.uk/tap.htm
Millennium Tapestry
Great Paxton Millennium Tapestry was dedicated at the Holy Trinity Church on Sunday, 9th July 2000.
http://www.greatpaxtonvillage.co.uk/CHURCH/Mill_tapestry.htm
Millennium Tapestry
Highfield Infants' School (Bromley, Kent UK) Millennium Tapestry
http://www.highfield-inf.bromley.sch.uk/milltap.htm
Martinstown
It is a tiny place near Dorchester with a stream running between the road and the cottages. The country round is rich in the turf-covered tombs of an immemorial ancestry.
http://www.martinstown.co.uk/WEBSITE/VILLAGE/tapestry.htm
Millennium Tapestry
St Bede, Bolton after school Craft Club have made a Millennium Tapestry.
http://www.st-bede.bolton.sch.uk/tapestry.htm
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The Millennium Tapestry was designed and made by all the children at Slaley First School, and was completed in the summer of 2000. It was exhibited at Alnwick Castle and Hexham Abbey, and now hangs in the School Hall.
http://www.slaley.northumberland.sch.uk/work/tapestry.htm
Millenium Tapestry
This original work of art measuring 8ft x 4ft 8in (2.43 x 1.42m) depicts aspects of village life in Goring, Streatley and surrounding areas at the end of the twentieth century. Designed and hand-made entirely by local inhabitants, it comprises 565,882 stitches and involved some 2500 hours of work.
http://www.goring-gap.co.uk/tapestry.htm
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