I think it's a great thing when a city that one doesn't normally associate with 'culture' is given the opportunity to show the world what they have or can achieve in the year of culture. Let's hope some really competent people are put in charge and not the young trendies I have done a few pictorial quilts but I am not sure they would be up to the standard you are looking for. I guess the problem with just googling images is getting permission.

Rosemary, just Google "Pictorial Wall Quilts" and you will have lots of images to show your "friends" for inspiration!

https://www.google.com/search?q=pictorial+wall+quilts&espv=210&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=qFYgU8GpIqaS0AHR8oGICQ&ved=0CEgQsAQ&biw=1517&bih=714&dpr=0.9

Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire has recently been awarded the prize/challange of being the City of Culture for 2017. (For those that know Hull please don't snigger too much - I'm doing it for you, cos personally I sometimes think there is more culture in a petri dish).

One of my best friends* from the Embroiderer's Guild has come up with the idea of getting lots of groups of people from across the city to put together pictorial wall quilts of aspects of the city, to be hung around the city so that people can wander around and view them. This will be similiar to what happened a few years ago with the Larkin toads (see here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-12823841 and here http://www.larkin25.co.uk/larkin-with-toads.phpfor further information about the toads).

The problem we have is that the average layperson on the street has no idea about pictorial quilts. Over here, if you are lucky, they imagine patchwork bed quilts. Therefore we need some pictures of pictorial wall quilts to show to people what we are talking about.

However - I have only ever made 1 pictorial(ish) wall quilt and it is currently hiding under wraps in Scotland until May. Therefore does anyone who has made a pictorial wall quilt mind sharing a photograph of it, with permission, that we might print it up for examples of what we are on about.

* and since I know appear to know most about quilts I have been nominated (in my absence) as technical wallah - with friends like this who needs enemies!