Sunday 27 September 2009
Isle of Lewis
It is known that Isle of Lewis are a Norse design which is carved out of a tusk named Walrus. It was founded in 1800s in Scotland. This chess case is of very fine quality and made up of a blend of very high quality resin with crushed marble. Furthermore, many inexpensive imitations were also made with usually artificial weighing. Original pieces of Isle of Lewis are placed in British museum. It is very important part in the history of chess as it is one of the known chess pieces still available with us.
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The Lewis Chessmen are a really precious medieval chess pieces set. There are some pieces in the Royal Museum of Edinburgh, they probably came from Norway and were crafted in Trondheim at the 12th century. In 2007, a controversy about the most appropriate place for displaying the pieces, but i don't know what happened at the end.
ReplyDeleteIt’s a type of board played by royal families and royal chess lovers, Lewis board has high kind of art work in it. This makes the player to feel more reality and brave, but the fact is original Lewis board is only one left in London museum. Other boards even don’t have traces, just the imitations are produced now days.
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