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Stitched and Woven Tour

Name: Stitched and Woven Tour
Start: 2026-08-13T11:30:00+01:00
Location: Friends of Winchester Cathedral

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Thursday, 13 August 2026 at 11:30

Friends of Winchester Cathedral

2 The Close, Southampton, SO23 9LS

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11:30

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Many readers will be familiar with Tracy Chevalier’s novel A Single Thread, but fewer realise that the embroidered kneelers and cushions created by Louisa Pesel and Sybil Blunt remain in daily use in the Cathedral Quire. This tour tells the real story behind these extraordinary works and the wider revival of ecclesiastical embroidery in the early 20th century.

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