The British Tapestry Group

The British Tapestry Group
Formation2005 (2005)
TypeCraft organisation
PurposeThe British Tapestry Group promotes and explores the concept of woven tapestry as a contemporary art form.
Region served
United Kingdom
MembershipFounding membership of five tapestry weavers, Ros Bryant, Janet Clark, Beryl Hammill, Shirley Ross and Nicola Wheeler. In 2025 several hundred members
LeaderChair: Paulette Furnival
Websitewww.thebritishtapestrygroup.co.uk

The British Tapestry Group (BTG) in 2005 which emerged from peer-to-peer support of a handful of tapestry weavers to a wider group based on similar principles. It now forms one of the organisers of many significant exhibitions each year, both regionally and nationally of Contemporary British Tapestry.[1]

Exhibitions

The BTG list their exhibitions on their website The British Tapestry Group Exhibitions.

Recent exhibitions include a series of exhibitions to celebrate their 20th Anniversary, Picking up the Thread: the Past, Present and Future of Tapestry

Tapestry 08 made a major impression on the mainstream Crafts Magazine in their review of the Bankfield Museum, Halifax exhibition shortly after their establishment.[2]

References

  1. ^ "About where and how BTG started and what we hope for the future". www.thebritishtapestrygroup.co.uk. Retrieved 30 November 2025.
  2. ^ "Tapestry 08". reader.exacteditions.com: 67. September 2008. Retrieved 30 November 2025.