Great Tapestry of Scotland

A non-working Tuesday and I have been spoiled for choice today. We've had a lot of snow and everywhere looks beautiful in both the sunshine and the more threatening snow clouds. So I could have blipped any number of landscapes and I'd have been pleased with whatever I chose.

But there's not really been a contest because this morning we visited the exhibition of the Great Tapestry of Scotland, currently in the Great Hall of Stirling Castle. This is the longest tapestry in the world and comprises 160 panels stitched by people the length and breadth of the country. It depicts the history of Scotland for the past 12,000 years. It's such a feat of organisation as well as a beautifully crafted story of the nation. If you ever get the chance do go and see it.

It's been a bit of a struggle to choose just one panel and I've dithered about between: Maeshowe and Scara Brae, Shetland Knitters, The Sinking of the Iolaire, Robert Owen and New Lanark, The Clearances, The Founding of the Border Abbeys, Somerled and the Lordship of the Isles, Scottish Women Win the Vote and a few others but in the end I went for this one of one of my favourite feats of Scottish engineering, the Forth Bridge.

http://scotlandstapestry.com