Overlord Embroidery

The piece was commissioned by Lord Dulverton in 1968 and made by the Royal School of Needlework from designs by artist Sandra Lawrence.

[2] The Embroidery is a tribute to our Country and Countrymen over the part played in defeating a great evil that sprang upon the Western World.

It focusses upon one historic and explicitly important campaign, to which the world conflict had led and made possible; and the Bayeux Tapestry nearly 900 years before D-Day certainly beckoned it to be made.Lord Dulverton established a committee which included retired senior officers to advise on the project.

That is pricking thousands of tiny holes in a tracing paper template, placing them on a panel and applying a fine powder known as pounce.

The majority of the work covers the crossing of the English Channel by the invasion fleet and the combat once the troops landed on the French coast.