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The Exhibition Centre The Exhibition Centre is open from April to December every year The Tapestry Tearooms are open all year The office is open from January to December every year Exhibition Centre facilities include: 77 panels of embroidery -Costume - Video - Gift Shop - Workshops - Step-free access for all - Toilets - and the Tapestry Tearooms The Quaker Tapestry has its permanent home in Kendal's historic Friends Meeting House (1816) which is in a prominent position in the centre of this attractive market town. Nowhere could be more suitable as the home for the Quaker Tapestry Exhibition than this fine Georgian building in the heart of the "1652 Country" on the edge of the English Lake District National Park. The Tapestry celebrates the ideas and experiences of Quakers since the Religious Society began in 1652 in Swarthmoor Hall, near Kendal.  Swarthmoor Hall - Quaker Tapestry Scheme ©
The permanent exhibition of the Quaker Tapestry was established in Kendal in April 1994 and will continue to open to the public every year. Admission Price
Please see the NEWS page for our current admission prices.
The 'Road Show' of the original embroideries still travels to various prestigious venues within the British Isles during the winter. A travelling photographic display of some of the panels is also available for hire. For information, dates and venues of these please go to Travelling Exhibition/Display
The Quaker Tapestry, Friends Meeting House, Stramongate, Kendal, Cumbria, LA9 4BH, England, UK site design by bf internet |
Since the first public exhibition in 1989 the Quaker Tapestry has travelled to over 150 venues. In England these include the Royal Festival Hall and the House of Commons, in London, at Lincoln, Winchester, Canterbury and Rochester Cathedrals and Beverley Minster; in Scotland at the Aberdeen Art Gallery; in Ireland at Dublin, Belfast and Waterford; in France at Bayeux; and at several places in the United States of America.