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The Liverpool Tapestry:
People, Places and Passions
This piece shows the Walker Art Gallery, where the first exhibition
of tapestry pieces was held, with the Steble Fountain in the
foreground. The Gallery was opened in 1877, funded by a donation
from Andrew Barclay Walker, a Liverpool brewer who gave
generously to good causes in an effort to improve the image of
brewing and alcohol at a time when the temperance movement was
popular.
“
I joined the Tapestry a little while after it started, as another
member of a craft club I belong to had already joined, although
I had not done any tapestry before. I decided to do a Mersey
ferryboat as I had spent many a day as a child back and forward
‘
sailing’. I also had dance lessons on the Royal Iris on Sunday
afternoons – happy days! The ferryboat is world famous and it
represents Liverpool in its heyday, when everyone used it.
I learned how to do tapestry work, and really enjoyed it – I
normally knit. Since I had mouth cancer four years ago I have
found speech very hard but everyone was very nice to me!”
Walker Art Gallery and Fountain
Designed and stitched by Trudy Hulmston
Mersey Ferry Boat
Designed and stitched by Gillian Jameson