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Part of one of Scotland’s most popular artworks is to go on display in the islands.

 

In partnership with Museum nan Eilean, 30 panels from the tapestry will be on display at Sgoil Lionacleit from 14 November to December 22.

 

A number of events for all ages will be held at the exhibition.

 

The 142 metre long tapestry, which is the brainchild of bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, depicts the history of Scotland from the landscape’s geological formation to the reconvening of the Scottish Parliament in 1999.

 

Some 30 of the 159 boldly designed and intricately stitched panels will be on display in Sgoil Lionacleit.

 

Great Tapestry of Scotland originator, Alexander McCall Smith, said: “I am delighted that The Great Tapestry of Scotland is coming to the Western Isles.

Great Tapestry of Scotland comes to the Western Isles

 

6 November 2015  

"The Western Isles have made a great contribution to the history of Scotland and this is reflected in a number of the tapestry’s panels.

 

"I hope that as many people as possible will take the chance to see this magnificent and moving work of art when it comes to them.

 

Five of the tapestry’s stitchers are residents of the Western Isles. Margaret Macleod and Mary Macleod, the Lewis Stitchers, combined to make an early panel representing the visit of the Greek traveller Pytheas, who took a reading of latitude at Calanais in the fourth century BC.

 

A stitching group who named themselves ‘The Sea-Mistresses’ worked on the panel depicting the loss of HMY Iolaire in 1919. This group consisted of Tracey MacLeod and Gillian Scott-Forest from Harris and Moira Macpherson from South Uist.