The Great Tapestry of Scotland Gift book
ISBN:
9781780276472
Publisher:
Birlinn Ltd
Publication Date:
22 July 2021 22 July 2021
This Great Tapestry of Scotland book is a truly gorgeous gift, showing every panel in the award-winning artwork in detail and in full colour. Every panel picture is accompanied by the names of the stitchers who worked on it and the story from history that it depicts. The text is by people’s historian and BAFTA film maker Alistair Moffat, illustrations from the artist Dr Andrew Crummy, and a foreward from our own Alexander McCall Smith.
Reviews
‘A real people’s history that has humour and pathos, erudition and wit, and where in every panel you feel the presence and the engagement of the makers’
BBC Radio 4, 'The museums that Make Us'
”[T]he most ambitious attempt to capture the past in needle and thread since the Bayeux Tapestry … The result is not just visually stunning but intensely moving and occasionally very funny’
The Times
‘This sumptuous book details every single panel in rich detail, giving a real sense of the scale of the project [. . .] perfect as an introduction to this wonderful work of art, or as a reminder for anyone who has seen the exhibition’
National Association for Decorative and Fine Arts Societies
