Threads through Creation at Southwark Cathedral

One of the panels at Southwark Cathedral

Eight million stitches expressing God's love! Textile artist Jacqui Parkinson spent three years stitching twelve HUGE (almost three metre high) panels to make this spectacular art exhibition. 'Threads through Creation' is showing at Southwark Cathedral from now until 26th August.

You'll see the black and white pages of the creation story in Genesis transformed into astonishing colours and designs. It's beautiful, breath-taking, uplifting and inspiring for all ages.

Threads through Creation is at Southwark Cathedral, London Bridge, London SE1 9DA from Mondays to Saturdays 9-6 and on Sundays 8.30-5.

This beautiful exhibition has already been shown at Sheffield, Blackburn and Lichfield Cathedrals and Leominster Priory. After Southwark Cathedral its going to Sherbourne Abbey and Hexham Abbey.

From 2025, Threads through Creation will become the first part of Threads through the Bible. Threads through the Cross' will be ready in 2025, and will make the third part of an extraordinary display.

All three huge sequences: 'Threads through Creation', 'Threads through the Cross' and 'Threads through Revelation' will be in as one exhibition.

This will probably be not only the largest textile project by a single artist ever, but also the largest textile project for 600 years. It will be astonishing in its scale and and variety.

It will have taken ten years, and used more than 25 million stitches. There will be 42 panels. If they were presented side by side, they would stretch more than 80 metres.

The premiere of this new show will be at Liverpool Cathedral in January 2025. After that, there will be exhibitions in a further nine venues, to the end of 2026.

LINKS

Southwark Cathedral: www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk

For more information and photos see: www.creation-threads.co.uk and www.jacqui-textile.com/bible/