One of the biggest community art projects ever to take place in Scotland, a tapestry recording Scottish history from the Ice age to Dolly the Sheep. The brainchild of Alexander McCall Smith with historian Alistair Moffat and artist Andrew Crummy, the tapestry will be unveiled in August 2013. This record of the Tapestry comes with a foreword from Alexander McCall Smith.
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The Great Tapestry of Scotland, Alistair Moffat and Andrew Crummy £30.00 Hardback 128 pages Birlinn 7th November 2013 9781780271606
“The creation of this wonderful tapestry has been an experience of sheer joy. Not only has the team of artist and stitchers created a stunning record of Scotland’s history, but the project has brought together hundreds of people in all parts of Scotland in joint artistic endeavour. In the many hours that the stitchers have spent together they have experienced the pleasure of making something permanent and beautiful; they have felt what it is to create art with others; they have found friendship.”
“We have all learned a lot from this. Many of us have learned a bit of history; many of us have learned about the desire that people have to engage in joint creative activity with others. Everyone, I think, has learned that what might seem a ridiculously ambitious project can succeed if there is enough love and enthusiasm and courage about. And there is.”
“I salute the visionary artist, Andrew Crummy, and his team of hundreds, led by Dorie Wilkie. I salute their magnificent artistry. I salute their generosity. I salute their good humour. This tapestry is their creation, given to the people of Scotland and to those who will come to Scotland to see it.”
– Alexander McCall Smith, 2013
Visit www.scotlandstapestry.com to find out more.
The Great Tapestry of Scotland is an outstanding celebration of thousands of years of Scottish history and achievement, from the end of the last Ice Age to Dolly the Sheep and Andy Murry's Wimbledon victory of 2013. More than 1000 stitchers spent a total of 55,000 sewing hours on the 160 panels that make up this extraordinary work of art. This book shows in full colour all the finished panels of the tapestry - one of the biggest community arts projects ever to take place in Scotland - together with descriptive and explanatory material on each panel and lists of all the stitchers involved.
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The Great Tapestry of Scotland is an outstanding celebration of thousands of years of Scottish history and achievement, from the end of the last Ice Age to Dolly the Sheep and Andy Murry's Wimbledon victory of 2013. More than 1000 stitchers spent a total of 55,000 sewing hours on the 160 panels that make up this extraordinary work of art.
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The Great Tapestry of Scotland was written by Alistair Moffat and published by Birlinn an imprint of Birlinn Ltd
The Great Tapestry of Scotland has 352 pages
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