Otago Embroiderers' Guild conference exhibitions co-ordinator, Suzanne Elliot, said the tapestries told the history of New Zealand, with panels showing different scenes in time.
The exhibition is open for public viewing from Saturday until July 26 at the Art Society rooms in the Dunedin Railway Station.
"This is the first time all the completed, and part-completed, tapestries have been displayed in one exhibition."
Stitchers and embroiderers from Northland all the way down to Southland helped make the various panels.
"We have been around for 14 years now and these panels have been worked on for that long — we’re still playing catch-up, history is still being made as we stitch."
The project was in the works since 2009, when an Otago businessman, Fred Haslan, approached the president of the Otago Embroiderers’ Guild with the concept of a tapestry telling the story of New Zealand.
Volunteers from all over New Zealand made each tapestry, with history being told in 90 panels.
The first panel made about 14 years ago was on the founding of Otago, and the most recent was on the founding of Wellington.
The tapestry display coincides with the guild’s week-long embroidery conference, in which 340 participants from all over New Zealand will meet for a week of talks, classes and knowledge sharing.
