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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: BTG 20th Anniversary Exhibition
The British Tapestry Group was set up in 2005 and to celebrate this we are holding an exhibition in which Full UK, Student and Rest of the World Members of the British Tapestry Group are invited to submit their work...
Artist of the week: Sabine Hyland
I am an anthropologist who studies the Andean textiles known as “quipu” (“khipu”), collaborating with elders in remote Indigenous communities with living quipu traditions. Quipus are a knotted cord writing system which villagers have described to me as a tapestry with a warp and a discontinuous weft.To better understand quipus, therefore, I have begun to weave tapestries, inspired by ancient and colonial South American tapestries. I learn by examining fragments of Inca and colonial Spanish tapestries, finding inspiration in how their makers played with colour, texture, form, and symbolism.
