The Chapel Royal "Cloths of Heaven". 1996
 
 
All of the cloths are seen here together. The blue cloth, the colour of the robe of the Virgin Mary, the sky, the sea and heavenly love. At the base is a transparent "sea" reflecting the volute design in the ceiling painting. In the sea sails a golden ship representing the Church.
Above, in the sky, is a circle of twelve stars representing the Virgin of the immaculate Conception and the twelve stars in the crown of the Queen of Heaven. A few days before the cloths were due to be completed, the tragic murder of sixteen children and their teacher happened in the town of Dunblane near Stirling. It seemed appropriate to commemorate the children and the teacher so they are commemorated by sixteen small stars adjacent to the sun and moon and one larger placed above the ship as the pole or guiding star to represent the teacher.

The designs for the cloths were interpreted, embroidered and assembled by thirty of the expert embroiderers of the Stirling Embroiderers' Guild. They used a variety of gold work techniques, appliqué and patchwork.