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Welcome to The British Tapestry Group
Welcome to our website where we will show you what we have to offer. We are an enthusiastic and growing organisation whose aims are to:
- Raise the profile of woven tapestry as an art form
- Increase awareness of the process and scope of woven tapestry
- Provide a support and communication network for artists working in woven tapestry
- Circulate information about exhibitions, events and commissions
- Offer opportunities for exhibiting in both national and regional exhibitions
- Provide information about weavers who teach and those who welcome visitors
Review: William Jefferies : A Life In Tapestry
Exhibition Morley Gallery, London 20 January to 7 February 2026 Review by Ngaire Thomson, January 2026 As an ex-student of William Jefferies, I must firstly declare that I have a positive bias towards any work that William produces, I find his work inspirational and this exhibition does not disappoint...
Exhibition: Tapestry of the North : Our Textile Heritage
Tapestry of the North: Our Textile Heritage showcases work from the talented North of England members of the British Tapestry Group, the exhibition consists of a series of hand-woven tapestries in a diverse range of styles and techniques...
Artist of the week: Gillian Bull
I have woven art and furnishing tapestries since the mid 1970s, and continue to explore appropriate uses for this ancient, and satisfyingly tactile, technique. It’s been suggested that over the millennia humans first needed to create mathematics (i.e. counting beyond our ten fingers) in order to calculate the multiple warp and weft threads needed for making a textile on a loom.Basically a punk weaver (not trained in the fierce discipline of the great tapestry workshops), when developing designs for commissions or myself I try to ensure that there’s a good reason for producing the resulting work as a tapestry, rather than a painting or sculpture.
