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 The Millennium Tapestries |
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As
we enter the third millennium AD, they tell the story of Guernsey during
the second, from the end of the Dark Ages to these days of relative
sophistication.
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Each of the tapestries were allocated to each of the island’s ten parishes and volunteers carried out the work. The words around the edges are in Guernsey-French, a legacy of their Franco-Norman ancestry. |
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Although
almost universally referred to as "tapestries", these are
in fact embroidered panels, the distinction being that they are given
a three-dimensional effect, whereas embroideries are two-dimensional.
The same can be said of the most famous example of them all, the Bayeux
Tapestry - it’s really embroidery
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