Zelda: Link To The Past World Map Tapestry Took 400 Days To Complete

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A dedicatedLegend of Zelda fan has created an incredible cross stitch tapestry of A Link to the Past's world map. The classic game, which celebrates its 30-year anniversary this year in North America and Europe, established many series conventions whilst also notably giving Zelda protagonist Link some unusually pink hair.

A Link to the Past was the game that first introduced theZelda series to the concept of alternate worlds. Link would travel between the Light World and Dark World in his efforts to defeat Ganon, otherwise known as regular Hyrule and the corrupted Sacred Realm respectively. A Link to the Past also returned to the top-down perspective of the original The Legend of Zelda, after the side-scroller action of The Legend of Link. The two expansive, parallel world maps were impressive for the technology of the time, and helped to make the third Zelda game an enduring fan favorite. Technically speaking, A Link to the Past has more dungeons than any other Zelda title despite its age and many successors.

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Now one fan has completed a tapestry depicting a map of the Light World. Reddit user oldmanchadly's embroidered world map clearly shows famous locations such as Hyrule Castle, Karariko Village and the Lost Woods, and is bordered by white clouds on all sides. According to oldmanchadly, the final product measures an incredible 27" by 24", is comprised of 128,164 individual cross stitches, and took 400 days of work to complete. Although this is obviously an enormous length of time, cross stitch and other such embroidery techniques are well-known to require large amounts of time and patience for large projects such as this one. In fact, some cross