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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.

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.

Bradford's Millenium Embroidery
Bradford on Avon's Millenium Tapestry. 12 panels mainly worked in chain stitch

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.