The Quaker Tapestry Exhibition & Tea Rooms

Quaker Tapestry Exhibition Centre
Friends Meeting House
Stramongate
Kendal
Cumbria
LA9 4BH
England

Website

www.quaker-tapestry.co.uk

E-mail

information

info@quaker-tapestry.co.uk

Telephone

Enquiries

01539 722975

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The Quaker Tapestry Exhibition at Kendal
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The visual impact and beauty of the award winning Quaker Tapestry, a celebration of life, people and events across the centuries, inspires all those who visit. Often compared with the Bayeux Tapestry, this modern, internationally created exhibition reveals a myriad of stories within 77 captivating and colourful embroidery panels. The Tapestry has left a unique legacy to the world of embroidery - a new stitch - named the 'Quaker Stitch'.

Venue Type:

Museum, Gallery, Association or society

 Opening hours

2010 Opening Times
From 29 March to 29 October, Mon to Fri, 10.00 to 17.00
Last admissions 16.00

Open some Saturdays and Bank Holidays, 10.00 - 15.00, in 2010: see the website for details

The Tapestry Tearooms are open Mon to Fri all year, plus the some Saturdays and Bank Holidays: see the website for details

Closed: November to March

 Admission charges

Adult: £6.50
Child: £2.00
Concesion: £5.50
Family: £14.00
Group: £4.00 (pre booked group of 15+ people)

Additional info

Motorised scooter available for loan (from the Kendal & South Lakes shop mobility scheme)

77 panels of embroidery made by 4,000 men,women and children from 15 countries.
19th century Quaker costume.
Quaker related artefacts.

Collection details

Social History, Religion, Industry, Costume and Textiles, Archives

Key artists and exhibits

  • The Quaker Tapestry
  • 19th century Quaker costume
  • Quaker artefacts
  • Quaker Tapestry
  • Narrative crewel embroidery
  • Crewel embroidery
  • embroidery
  • Crewel work
  • Community textile
  • Quaker Stitch
  • Quaker Bonnet
  • Social history
  • Story telling
  • Religious Society of Friends
  • Quakers
  • Civil War
  • Victorians
  • Scientists
  • Ecology
  • George Fox
  • Margaret Fell
  • Elizabeth Fry
  • Slave Trade
  • Abolition of slavery
  • World Family of Friends
  • Barrett Counterpane
  • Barrett Friendship Quilt
  • Early Railways
  • Quaker Schools
  • Meeting House
  • Meeting Houses Overseas
  • Meeting Houses in the Community
  • Prison reform
  • Textile art
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