New World Tapestry

The New World Tapestry was for a time the largest stitched embroidery in the world.^[1] It depicts English colonisation in North America, Guyanas, and Bermuda between the years 1583 and 1642, when the English Civil War began.

Work began on the tapestry in 1977 and continued for twenty years, with the last stitch made by then-Prince Charles in 2000.^[2] The tapestry was at the British Empire & Commonwealth Museum until its closure in 2013. It is now in the collection of the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery in storage.