Craggaunowen Illuminated

 

This month’s piece from the Illuminated Ireland series features a photo of a crannog.

People first began building crannogs – dwellings on artificial islands - during the Neolithic period.  Crannog ruins in Ireland have been dated 1200 – 600 B.C.

Much to my surprise, I was recently watching a tv show about Scotland and some popped up.  As it turns out, they can be found in Wales as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crannog

This reconstruction can be found in Craggaunowen…

https://www.craggaunowen.ie/

 Which also has a cute little castle, so it’s well worth a visit.

Here’s the drawing of the illuminated letter C. ( I thought a sea creature would be appropriate.)

And, the photoshop combination ready for printing on linen.

 

Here’s another photo of the final version.

Here are links to the other pieces from the Illuminated Ireland series…

https://pj-studio.blogspot.com/2026/01/glendalough-illuminated.html

https://pj-studio.blogspot.com/2026/02/kilkea-rose-embroidery.html

 

And, here are some other previously posted embroideries…

https://pj-studio.blogspot.com/2012/11/embroidery-coral-bouquet.html

https://pj-studio.blogspot.com/2024/02/embroidery-chinatown-butterfly.html

https://pj-studio.blogspot.com/2013/06/embroidery-orange-tulips.html

Cheers!

PJ

 

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