The French Shore Tapestry

TOM COCHRANE PHOTO/ GO WESTERN NEWFOUNDLAND

Inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry, artists and embroiderers in a Newfoundland village commemorated a lost way of life. The tapestry on display in Conche, a village on Newfoundland’s historic French Shore, illustrates the area’s French connections, including its complex history of fishing rights. It took a team of a dozen embroiderers about three years to finish embroidering the tapestry. It is more than 200 feet long and winds around a room in the French Shore Interpretive Centre.

TOM COCHRANE PHOTO/ GO WESTERN NEWFOUNDLAND

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(Thanks Bruce!)