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	D-Day Museum & the Overlord Embroidery
		Four years in the preparation, Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, marked the beginning of the end of World War II and the eventual liberation of Europe.
		Operation Overlord, the D-Day invasion of Normandy by Allied Forces on 6 June, 1944 was almost certainly the greatest amphibious operation in history.
		The Overlord Embroidery, the centrepiece of the D-Day Museum, was commissioned by Lord Dulverton of Batsford as a tribute to the sacrifice and heroism of those who took part.
	www.ddaymuseum.co.uk /overlord.htm (479 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Embroidery (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Embroidery has traditionally been used to decorate clothing and household furnishings including table linens, tray cloths, towels and bedding, but you can literally embroider anything as long as it is made out of an evenly woven fabric and can be held firmly in the hand or in a special embroidery hoop or tapestry frame.
		The art of hand embroidery is a painstaking and laborious process, but today garments are often decorated with machine embroidery instead.
		Embroidery has also been used as a form of art and for decoration, through the creation of embroidered or cross-stitch samplers, tapestries, wall-hangings and other works of textile art.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/em/Embroidery (350 words)

	Overlord embroidery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Overlord embroidery was commissioned by Lord Dulverton and made by the Royal School of Needlework from designs by artist Sandra Lawrence.
		The Overlord emboidery is the longest work of its kind in the world and is 10 metres (33 feet) longer than the Bayeux tapestry.
		The embroidery is housed in the D-Day museum in Southsea, Portsmouth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Overlord_embroidery (242 words)

	Bio - Embroidery Wikipedia Embroidery
		Embroidery is an ancient variety of decorative needlework in which designs and pictures are created by stitching strands of some material on to a layer of another material.
		Most embroidery uses thread or wool stitched onto a woven fabric, but the stitches could be executed in, for example, wire or leather strands, and embroidery can be worked onto many materials.
		One of the world's most famous pieces of embroidery is the Bayeux Tapestry, made in the 11th century to commemorate the Battle of Hastings.
	www.blinkbits.com /bits/viewtopic/embroidery_wikipedia?t=338522 (528 words)

	Embroidery
		Assisi embroidery is a form of counted-thread embroidery from the Italian town of Assisi, practised since the 13th century and still to this day.
		It is a negative embroidery, also known as voiding, as the background is filled in while the motif itself is left blank.
		It was used in the Bayeux Tapestry, in Jacobean embroidery and in the Quaker tapestry.
	www.breadlike.com /pages7/28/embroidery.html (1101 words)

	Overlord Embroideries of D-Day landings, Normandy, June 1944, designed Sandra Lawrence, made by Royal School of ...
		The Overlord Embroidery is housed in the D-Day Museum, Portsmouth, England.
		The D-Day Museum, Portsmouth, England, was specially built to house the Overlord Embroidery in 1984 and was unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, where it resides on permanent display.
		The Overlord Embroidery Paintings are displayed along the walls of one of the major thoroughfares in the Pentagon, the headquarters of the US Department of Defense.
	www.sandralawrence.co.uk /html/alt_overlord.html (744 words)

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		Its centrepiece is the magnificent Overlord Embroidery commissioned by Lord Dulverton of Batsford (1915-92) as a tribute to the sacrifice and heroism of those men and women who took part in Operation Overlord.
		The Overlord Embroidery was conceived by Lord Dulverton as a modern counterpart to the Bayeux Tapestry.
		Within the Embroidery gallery is the audio-visual theatre, where archive film footage, music, wartime images and the words of those who lived through it combine to evoke the atmosphere of World War II.
	www.penmarric.ns.ca /curlykatgraphics/portsmouth9.htm (689 words)

	D-Day Museum and Overlord Embroidery, Portsmouth - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, ...
		The amazing Overlord Embroidery, a modern-day counterpart to the Bayeux Tapestry that tells the dramatic story of the Allied landings in Normandy on 6 June 1944.
		The scenes depicted in the Embroidery's 34 panels are vividly described in a multi-language soundguide.
		Within the Embroidery gallery is the audio-visual theatre, where archive film footage, music, wartime images and the words of those who lived through it combine to evoke the atmosphere of World War II.
	www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /museum_gfx_en/SE000241.html (587 words)

	Classic Stitches (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Similarly, the Overlord Embroidery marks the launching of another invasion nearly 900 years later, although the Norman fleet and army of 1066 would have been dwarfed by the forces deployed in 1944 by the Allies (primarily British, American and Canadian troops).
		Some of the parallels between the Overlord Embroidery and the Bayeux Tapestry were explored recently by the Portsea Island Branch of the Embroiderers’ Guild.
		The last panel of the Embroidery to be completed (actually panel number 30 in the sequence) depicts the city of Caen, left in ruins by the fighting.
	www.classicstitches.com /spotlight/spotlight.cfm?spotlight_id=40 (1170 words)

	SANDRA LAWRENCE - Biography
		It was commissioned as a permanent memorial to and record of Operation Overlord, the code words for the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944.
		The embroidery measures 272 feet and is the largest of its kind in the world.
		The Overlord Embroidery was unveiled by Her Majesty Oueen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, at the Whitbread Museum, Chiswell Street, City of London, where it is on permanent display.
	www.rogallery.com /lawrence_sandra/lawrence-bio.html (646 words)

	Embroidery Needlework Crafts Arts
		Such needlework crafts as embroidery, knitting, crochet, sewing, cross-stitch, and needlepoint.
		Hingham JournalIt?s nice to be home for the holidays!Hingham Journal, MA - Dec 7, 2006The origin of samplers can be identified by grades of embroidery and needlework, designs and patterns, different fabrics, the many kinds and colors of...
		- Embroidery discovery space for children and anyone involved in textile art, craft and education.
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Arts/Crafts/Needlework/Embroidery (708 words)

	Portsmouth Herald Local News: D-Day memories still poignant
		They were part of Overlord’s aerial armada and the marks were intended instantly to distinguish them from enemy planes to the allied gunners.
		Ike is one of the invasion-force commanders depicted in the impressive Overlord Embroidery in Portsmouth’s D-Day Museum, which I had a chance to view a few years ago during a first visit to our namesake city in old Hampshire.
		The embroidery is a modern version of the ancient Bayeux Tapestry, which tells in a series of panels story of William the Conqueror’s invasion across the Channel in the reverse direction, almost a thousand years ago.
	www.seacoastonline.com /2004news/06052004/news/19960.htm (1051 words)

	Community Embroidery Needlework Crafts Arts
		- The Millennium The Sunbury Millennium Embroidery is intended as a permanent, commemorative record which celebrates the ancient riverside village of Sunbury-on-Thames and its community at the turn of the year 2000.
		- The Overlord Embroidery is a unique 83-metre-long textile tribute to the sacrifice and heroism of those who took part in Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, on 6 June 1944.
		- The Embroidery took 3 years to make and was ready in time for the Millennium, the three panel embroidery is displayed at Christ Church in Prince Edward's Road, Lewes.
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Arts/Crafts/Needlework/Community_Embroidery (899 words)

	ODP Katalog - Arts \| Crafts \| Needlework \| Community_Embroidery (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Overlord Embroidery - The Overlord Embroidery is a unique 83-metre-long textile tribute to the sacrifice and heroism of those who took part in Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, on 6 June 1944.
		Quorn Embroidery - Images of Quorn 2000 is the interpretation by six Quorn embroideries who responded to the Parish Council Chairman's plea for villagers to produce a Parish Map for Quorn.
		Sunbury Millennium Embroidery - This project is intended as a permanent, commemorative record which celebrates the ancient riverside village of Sunbury-on-Thames and its community at the turn of the year 2000.
	www.dfdsjumbo.com /katalog/Arts/Crafts/Needlework/Community_Embroidery (986 words)

	Education
		Overlord Embroidery Slide Show (temporary through December 2006) Operation Overlord was the code name for the Allied invasion of Normandy, D-Day, June 6, 1944.
		It is fascinating as a piece of history, and especially as a rare modern example of the art of embroidery used to publicly memorialize an historical event.
		The Sequoia Chapter has donated the Overlord Embroidery slide show and supplemental materials to National, where it will become part of the EGA national slide library.
	www.psrega.org /Education.htm (1080 words)

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