The tapestry contains 24 panels and almost 39 million stitches A team of 20 volunteers from Devon began the New World Tapestry in 1980 It took 256 volunteers from Devon and Dorset 20 years to ...

People come together every Tuesday on the University of Michigan campus to work on a tapestry based on traditional Palestinian embroidery. Each stitch represents a death in Gaza.

The famous Bayeux Tapestry, however, is an embroidery made from sheets of linen, with pictures added using individual stitches. It would have taken at least 45kg of wool, using ten colours made ...