Irish Landscape Collection
Newgrange
And the Boyne Valley
Tapestry Kit or Canvas Only -
printed area 26cms by 34.5cms.
Skill Level: Moderate - Experienced.
Recommended for Long Stitch but also
suits Half Cross Stitch or Tent Stitch.
Kits contain full colour printed canvas, wools,
stitching instructions and a needle!
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A hand-crafted needlework kit from Atlantic
Stitches where we have
a commitment to original landscape drawn from life.
A counted cross-stitch
chart will be available soon.
The Entance Stone, Newgrange
18.5cms. Diameter
Skill Level: Moderate -
Experienced.
Suits Long Stitch.
Kits contain full colour printed canvas, wools, stitching instructions & needle.
Counted Cross-stitch chart of
The Entrance Stone available .
The constuction of the monument at Newgrange about 3000BC makes it one of the oldest man made structures. For the Neolithic farmers who built it, the monument was just part of a whole area of elaborate cultural development which is still only being pieced together and understood today.
Newgrange is the largest and is particularly noted for the shaft of sunlight which pentrates down the passageway to the chamber at the heart of the stucture at the winter solstice - testament to the astronomical knowledge and interest of the ancients.
Although the monument is quite small in this tapestry, it is seen atop it's hill that lies in a broad bend of the River Boyne. It is thus seen in the context of this magnificent, fertile valley so important to early man.
