 When the very first stitch was made in the New World Tapestry in 1980, the team working in Prysten House numbered twenty.By the time the last stitch was made in March 2000, the number of tapissiers had increased to two hundred fifty-six with the addition of another eight centres.In Devon there was a second in Plymouth at HMS "Drake" (the Royal Navy's panel), Ivybridge, Chillington, Exeter, Bideford, Totnes and Tiverton Castle.