Magna Carta (An Embroidery) is a 2015 work by English installation artist
Cornelia Parker. The artwork is an
embroidered representation of the complete text and images of an
online encyclopedia article for
Magna Carta, as it appeared in
English Wikipedia on
15 June 2014, the 799th anniversary of the document. The hand-stitched embroidery is 1.5 metres (5') wide and nearly 13 metres (42') long. The embroidery formed part of an exhibition celebrating the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta on 15 June 2015. It was displayed in the Entrance Hall of the British Library from 15 May to 24 July 2015.Embroidery credit:
Cornelia Parker; Scanned by
British Library; edited by
Bammesk