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» All Saints Church, Rotherfield Peppard - The Millennium Tapestry is located at the rear of the building. Scenes on the tapestry depict some of the features that characterise Peppard.




» 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.




» Bradford's Millennium Embroidery - Bradford on Avon's Millennium Tapestry. 12 panels mainly worked in chain stitch




» Ferring Millennium Project - The 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




» 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.




» Heaton, Bradford, St Barnabas Millennium Tapestry - This millennium tapestry was organised through church groups, individual embroiderers chose their own techniques.




» Kimpton Village - Millennium Tapestry - Ideas for a millennium tapestry were first discussed in September 1997. The design is a triptych depicting the villages - its features and activities.




» Leeds Tapestry 2000 - Community art project embroidered to celebrate the millennium, consisting of 16 panels of needlework in a fabric collage.




» 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.




» 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.




» 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.




» 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.




» 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.




» Millennium 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.




» 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.




» Millennium Tapestry - Highfield Infants' School (Bromley, Kent UK) Millennium Tapestry




» New Page 1 - 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.




» 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.




» 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.




» 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.




» Sunbury Millennium Embroidery - This project 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.




» 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.'




» U3A Millennium Tapestry - The story of the Market Harborough U3A Millennium Tapestry.




» Wells Millennium Tapestry at Wells Town Hall, Wells, Somerset, UK - A Millennium tapestry created by the Adult Education Community Classes in Wells, Somerset UK

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