Stitching an Icon: Iona Abbey

STITCHING THE TAPESTRY OF THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS

This audio forms part of a series of audio interviews conducted in 2023 by Smartify as part of the Spirit of the Highlands and Islands project. Listen and discover the Spirit of the Highlands and Islands through the eyes of the stitchers of the Tapestry of the Highlands and Islands.

Join Melanie and Jenny of The Dam Stitchers as they discuss the story of the Iona panel, its design and materials and the continued relevance of Iona's history to contemporary Scotland.

[Melanie] The history of Iona it's so well known, it's not a thing I would presume to sit here and tell anybody except the thing I obtusely, really, I love about the Iona connection is about the Vikings. I love the Vikings. I think the culture was so different and so influential at the same time on lots of other cultures and so much of it still remains...