To promote the seventh season of Game of Thrones, Tourism Ireland commissioned the creation of an enormous Bayeux-style tapestry featuring scenes from the first 60 episodes of the show, before adding seven additional panels for each episode of season 7. The tapestry now rests in the Ulster Museum in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Belfast has been the nerve center of filming since the first season, so it only makes sense:
According to Conolly Cove, a YouTube channel dedicated to showing off cool things to do in Ireland — north and south — the tapestry is 77 meters long, was woven and hand embroidered from linen provided by Thomas Ferguson Irish Linen in Banbridge, and contains roughly 250,000 hand placed threads. We’ve seen the tapestry before, but it always warrants a second, third and thirty-fourth look; Mashable produced a lovely new video that gets up close and personal with some memorable panels:
Game of Thrones has become a big part of the Northern Irish tourism industry, and Connolly Cove has a lot of videos highlighting lots of things that will appeal to fans, including looks at filming locations like the Giant’s Causeway…
…the Dark Hedges…
…and a video all about the “actors” who played the direwolves on the show. Visit them while you can!
But it all comes back to that tapestry. We can’t wait to see what they do with the final six episodes. Hopefully, the Tapestry will live on for a long while after to commemorate what Game of Thrones did for the area.
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