Game of Thrones Tapestry
Hand-woven tapestry depicting every Game of Thrones episode.
The Game of Thrones Tapestry is a hand-crafted textile artwork commissioned by HBO and Tourism Ireland to promote Northern Ireland's linen heritage and its role as a filming location for the television series Game of Thrones. Woven on a jacquard loom and hand-embroidered, the tapestry depicts scenes from every episode of the show, including images of crew at work, and was created to illustrate a shift in employment from the traditional linen industry to tourism related to the series.
Quick Facts
- Height Metric
- 70
- Year
- July 2017
- Completion Date
- September 2017
- Museum
- Ulster Museum Belfast
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背景与渊源
The tapestry was woven by hand on a TC2 jacquard loom from Digital Weaving Norway, using black and white cotton warp threads and weft yarns of flax and linen. The weaving was carried out by the team at Dash & Miller, who programmed the loom using Pointcarre software and manually passed three colours of weft thread through the shed. The average weaving speed was 4 hours per metre, and a camera installed above the loom captured weekly time-lapses. After weaving, each 11-metre section was shipped to the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum near Holywood, County Down, for embroidery by a team of 30 stitchers, including museum staff and volunteers from textile guilds such as the Northern Ireland Lace Guild, the Patchwork Guild, and the Embroidery Guild. The volunteers ranged from a recent textiles graduate to an 82-year-old with a background in garment stitching.
阅读指南
The Game of Thrones Tapestry was commissioned to celebrate the legacy of Northern Ireland's linen and textile industry, which at the end of the 19th century employed over 100,000 people. By the 2010s, the industry had shrunk, while Game of Thrones tourism had grown, attracting 350,000 visitors in 2018 alone. The advertising agency Publicis London generated the campaign to help a global audience understand this shift in employment. The tapestry was made from linen, representing late-18th-century material, and used embroidery techniques passed down through generations. Some yarns were supplied by Thomas Ferguson and Co. Ltd of Banbridge in association with the Irish Linen Guild, and the same yarns had been used in garments worn on the show. The finished tapestry, at 90 metres, is longer than its inspiration, the 70-metre Bayeux Tapestry. It was displayed at the Bayeux Museum in Normandy from September to December 2019, with Irish officials hoping the exhibit would boost tourism to Northern Ireland.
你知道吗？
- The tapestry consists of eight panels: seven 11-metre panels and one 10.5-metre panel.
- The jacquard loom used was a hand-operated TC2 weaving loom from Digital Weaving Norway.
- The tapestry was hand-embroidered by some of the last people remaining in the Northern Irish textile industry.
- The website launched in July 2017 allows viewers to scroll the entire tapestry and zoom in to see each stitch.