Crowning Glory for Stirling Palace

A new, hand-woven tapestry depicting the Unicorn at Bay has been unveiled in the recently opened James V Palace at Stirling Castle.

The display of the tapestry also marks a funding milestone for the charitable foundation that made the project possible.

The 3.3m by 3.8m tapestry is the fifth in the series of seven to be specially commissioned to hang in the newly opened attraction within Stirling Castle.

The designs are based on a collection of original 16th century Flemish tapestries titled The Hunt of the Unicorn held in the Cloisters Museum at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as research has shown that the Scottish royal collection also included a series depicting ‘the historie of the unicorne’.

Stirling Castle Tapestry

Mary Queen of Scots (Jo Hart) inspects 'The Unicorn is Found' - the largest of a series of seven hand woven tapestries at Stirling Castle. Measuring 12 foot wide by 11 foot high, it was unveiled Friday morning in the Chapel Royal. Visit RobMcDougall.com