The Liverpool Tapestry:
People, Places and Passions
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The Mersey Ferry ‘Royal Iris’ is a familiar site on the river, and is
used now not only for the regular river crossings between Liverpool
and the Wirral but also for river cruises and events.
The overall designer of the Tapestry project had to be persuaded
to complete a piece (‘My designs are all over this already!’) but has
chosen to show an aerial perspective of Sefton Park, with the lake
and the Palm House. She chose this because as an art student, she
recalls one of her tutors had stock instructions for the class – ‘go
into Sefton Park and draw what you see’. She recalls spending many
happy hours spent in the Palm House, just drawing, and given that
it has now been restored to it’s former glory it seemed a nice way of
celebrating the renovation and also including happy memories from
her student days.
Royal Iris Mersey Ferry
Designed and stitched by Christina Ward
Sefton Park Lake
Designed and stitched by Elsie Watkins