The Great Tapestry of Scotland: The Making of a Masterpiece - Brossura

Mansfield, Susan; Moffat, Alistair

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ISBN 10: 1780271336 ISBN 13: 9781780271330

Casa editrice: Birlinn Ltd, 2013

Riassunto

The brainchild of bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, historian Alistair Moffat, and artist Andrew Crummy, 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. More than 1,000 volunteer stitches spent a total of 60, 000 sewing hours using more than 300 miles of yarn to create the 160 panels that make up this extraordinary work of art. Like the Bayeux tapestry, the Great Tapestry of Scotland has been created on embroidered cloth, and is annotated in English, Gaelic, Scots and Latin. This book tells the story of this unique undertaking—one of the biggest community arts projects ever to take place in Scotland—and includes full-color plates of a selection of the panels from the completed tapestry, together with descriptive and explanatory material.

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Recensione

'[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

L'autore

Susan Mansfield is a journalist who has written about the arts in Scotland for more than 20 years. In 2001, she joined the staff of the Scotsman and has written for the paper with a particular interest in art, literature, and theater. Alistair Moffat is a former director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and a program director at Scottish Television. He runs the Borders and Lennoxlove book festivals as well as the DNA testing company, BritainsDNA, and is currently rector of St. Andrews University. He is the author of several books, including The Borders, The British, The Faded Map, Kelsae, The Reviers, The Sea Kingdoms, The Scots: A Genetic Journey, Tuscany, and The Wall. Alexander McCall Smith is professor of medical law at the University of Edinburgh. He has written more than 50 books and is best known for The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, which has achieved bestseller status on four continents. In 2004 he was awarded the British Book Awards Author of the Year and Booksellers Association Author of the Year.

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• Editore: Birlinn Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1780271336
• ISBN 13: 9781780271330
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 111