THE Great Tapestry of Scotland is coming together piece by piece with the announcement of a new arrival.
The Midwives Scotland panel was launched at New Lanark yesterday, ahead of its final destination at the new Great Tapestry of Scotland location in Galashiels in or around 2020.
The new tapestry panel, created by the Royal College of Midwives, is on show for the first time, as part of the Great Tapestry of Scotland exhibition at the New Lanark Visitor Centre.
The panel marks the centenary of the Midwives Act (Scotland) 1915. Over the course of 2015 the panel, with the help of a group of expert midwife needle-workers, travelled the length and breadth of Scotland to enable midwives, maternity support workers, student midwives, professors, paediatricians, anaesthetists, obstetricians, porters and domestic staff to put a stitch in a piece of history.
The final stitch was made by the Princess Royal, right, who is patron of the Royal College of Midwives.
The panel has at its centre an image of a mother and baby wrapped in a traditional shawl supported by two midwives from the past and present day.
Each corner holds an image considered to be of particular importance to midwives, as well as the Royal College crest, in celebration of the profession.
The exhibition at New Lanark runs until July 1.
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