To celebrate its 50th anniversary and to showcase its members’ skills, West Country Embroiderers is exhibiting embroideries of the South West coast path from its start in Dorset, around Devon and Cornwall and finishing at the Devon/Somerset border on the north coast. Members from across the organisation have embroidered 166 panels to illustrate landmarks along the path, using any stitching technique they wish. The A5-sized vertically worked embroideries are unframed, but displayed consecutively so that the viewer ‘walks’ the coast path. A stitched map of the Coastline is included and panels marking the county borders have also been inserted.
This topic was chosen as the Coast Path links the 3 counties of WCE, a not-for-profit organisation established in 1973 to promote the skills and knowledge of all forms of textile work across the counties of Cornwall, Devon and Dorset.
The exhibition will go to the Dorset Arts and Crafts Association in August and The Gallery Upstairs in Poole in October.
Free to visit and welcome to all.
