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Did you know... that the Jersey Maritime Museum(part of collection pictured) displays a 7.5-million-stitch tapestry depicting life under Nazi occupation that was worked on by thousands of islanders?
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... that the Jersey Maritime Museum(part of collection pictured) includes a 78-foot (24 m)-long tapestry depicting life on the island during German occupation?
Normandy. Michelin. 2001. p. 360.
ISBN978-2-06-000139-5. gives 6ftx3ft panel sizes, 6ftx13 panels is 78 ft.
ALT1:... that the Jersey Maritime Museum(part of collection pictured) displays a 7.5 million stich tapestry depicting life under Nazi occupation that was worked on by thousands of islanders? "What is amazing about the project is that although there were a core of 'stitchers' in each parish, over the few years that it took for all the panels to be completed, thousands of Islanders, as well as visitors to Jersey, put a few stitches in the Occupation Tapestry panels ... In all, the twelve panels contain 7,520,256 stitches" from:
"The Occupation Tapestry, Jersey, Channel Islands - commemorating liberation from 5 years of Nazi rule". History Alive. 13 May 2017. Retrieved 18 September 2021.