Like most of his "weird and wonderful ideas", Michael Eavis says, it came to him like a flash in the middle of the night. At least nine miles of fencing is being erected around his farm in Somerset in preparation for next month's Glastonbury festival: why not decorate hundreds of metres of it with tapestries showing the history of radical protest?

Thus were born plans for the biggest art installation to be featured at the event. Inspired by woven protests at Greenham Common, trade union banners and, says Mr Eavis, the Bayeux tapestry, volunteers are to decorate 120 panels of fencing with scenes commemorating the festival's campaigning heritage. "I'm probably being reflective on my life," Mr Eavis said. "All the things that we've been campaigning about: CND, Greenpeace ... the miners ... It's about reminding people."

 

Turning his vision into embroidered reality is Greenham veteran Liz Eliot who coordinates the Greenfields area of the festival.

Glastonbury starts on June 22 and the full lineup will be revealed exclusively in the Guardian, a sponsor of the festival, on Friday.