At the start of this month, the first panels for the Scottish Diaspora Tapestry, from Barga arrived at The Prestoungrange Gothenburg, on the High St in Prestonpans, Scotland. (article here)
The press conference to launch this project took place just a few weeks ago (article here) but today in the office of giornaledibarganews arrived an email from Scotland with a small video personally thanking the women from Barga who have so far taken part in this project.
The women who have participated in this ambitious project can breath a collective sigh of relief. Their work, at least for the moment is finished -- if everything is deemed satisfactory then the other four or five panels depicting the Barga emigration story in Scotland will then be sent back to Italy and work can begin once again in earnest for the completion and showing of the finished tapestry ready for the Scotland homecoming event in 2012.
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So far six people here in Barga have been working on Andrew Crummy’s design – Lucia Pieroni, Lia Baldacci, Federica Caproni, Stefania Gugliesi,Roberta Carradini and Maria Elena Caproni and there is a short list of other people wanting to take part in this project for the new panels.
Scottish Diaspora Tapestry is a large embroidery depicting the events of the Scottish diaspora. and is the brainchild of the Prestongrange Arts Festival, the former Chairman of the Trust (Gordon Baron Prestoungrange), and the designer Andrew Crummy. Barga with its long history of movement between the city and Scotland has been given the chance to contribute to this exciting project with a series of embroidered panels in the tapestry. The main design will be done by the Scottish artist Andrew Crummy who will print his finished image onto the linen panels and which along with the needles, wool and thread will then sent to the volunteers so that they can start work stitching the final panels. The organisers are intending to have ready, finished and on show the completely new tapestry depicting the events of the Scottish diaspora as part of the Scotland homecoming event in 2012
The finished panel now in the hands of the organisers in Prestonpans, Scotland carries with it a small surprise. The organisers asked that the women leave an embroidered symbol containing their initials in the bottom right hand corner of the tapestry. Instead of a simple design they instead used part of the ibarga project which has been running in Barga since 2008 and attached a small QR code which if scanned with a smartphone or tablet with take the viewer automatically to a small video where each of the women introduce themselves.
Technology from the 21st century connected to a tapestry -- a medium that has a history going back to the middle ages.
The women taking part in the project photographed in the office of giornaledibarganews in Piazza Angelio -- Lucia Pieroni, Lia Baldacci, Federica Caproni, Stefania Gugliesi,Roberta Carradini and Maria Elena Caproni
Scottish Diaspora Tapestry -- possiamo davvero tirare un sospiro di sollievo. Il primo pannello richiesto a Barga per comporre l’arazzo che racconterà la storia della diaspora scozzese è giunto a destinazione: a confermarlo non solo la tracciabilità del pacco spedito, ma anche un video inviato a Barga da parte degli organizzatori.
“Grazie tante, Brava!” ci dicono dal Prestoungrange Art Festival di Prestonpans mostrando quel ricamo che fino a poche settimane fa è stato tra le mani di Lucia Pieroni, Lia Baldacci, Federica Caproni, Stefania Gugliesi, Roberta Carradini e Maria Elena Caproni.
Un breve video che fa eco a quello che ha accompagnato il ricamo, visibile tramite un qr code cucito su un angolo del lavoro nel quale le ricamatrici hanno raccontato come e perché hanno voluto dedicare il loro tempo allo Scottish Diaspora Tapestry.
Overview of QR Codes
A QR Code is a matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code), readable by QR scanners, mobile phones with a camera,smartphones and tablets. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on white background. The information encoded can be text, URL or other data.
Common in Japan, where it was created by Toyota subsidiary Denso-Wave in 1994, the QR code is one of the most popular types of two-dimensional barcodes. QR is the abbreviation for Quick Response, as the creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed.
Although initially used for tracking parts in vehicle manufacturing, QR Codes are now used in a much broader context, including both commercial tracking applications and convenience-oriented applications aimed at mobile phone users (known as mobile tagging). QR Codes can be used to display text to the user, to add a vCard contact to the user’s device, to open a URI or to compose a text message or email. Users can also generate and print their own QR Code for others to scan and use by visiting one of several free QR Code generating sites. Frank C. Hudetz, a US Marketing Services Professional, claims to have invented the idea of mapping bar codes to a URL.
QR Codes storing addresses and URLs may appear in magazines, on signs, buses, business cards, or on just about any object about which users might need information. Users with a camera phone equipped with the correct reader application can scan the image scan the image of the QR Code to display text, contact information, connect to a wireless network, or open a web page in the phone’s browser. This act of linking from physical world objects is known as a hardlink or physical world hyperlinks.
23 March 2012 – Presiding Officer sews first stitch on Great Tapestry of Scotland
Tricia Marwick sews stitch Presiding officer Tricia Marwick and writer Alexander McCall Smith sewed the first stitch on the tapestry
The presiding officer of the Scottish parliament has sewn the first stitch in what is hoped will be the longest embroidered tapestry in the world.
Tricia Marwick began the Great Tapestry of Scotland which will illustrate the country’s history and will involve hundreds of volunteer stitchers.
It is one of the biggest community arts projects in the world.
The tapestry will be 141m in length when finished and should be exhibited at Holyrood in August 2013.
The project is the brainchild of Scottish writer Alexander McCall Smith, artist Andrew Crummy and historical writer Alistair Moffat.
The team has constructed a list of 150 key moments in Scotland’s history.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-17487640