the bayeux tapestry

[shazzle]

who made the bayeux tapestry?

[Ewood27]

According to http://www.bayeuxtapestry.org.uk/BayeuxInfo.htm

 

The Bayeux Tapestry is preserved and displayed in Bayeux, in Normandy, France. Nothing is known for certain about the tapestry�s origins. The first written record of the Bayeux Tapestry is in 1476 when it was recorded in the cathedral treasury at Bayeux as "a very long and narrow hanging on which are embroidered figures and inscriptions comprising a representation of the conquest of England".

The Bayeux Tapestry was probably commissioned in the 1070s by Bishop Odo of Bayeux, half-brother of William the Conqueror. It is over 70 metres long and although it is called a tapestry it is in fact an embroidery, stitched not woven in woollen yarns on linen. Some historians argue that it was embroidered in Kent, England. The original tapestry is on display at Bayeux in Normandy, France.

[Quizmonster]

According to a website run by 'The Times', it was probably created by nuns (possibly at Canterbury). Click http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,16650-1236340,00.html and scroll down to the paragraph which opens "The most famous..."

(Dear E, your response seems to have appeared between my going off in search of an answer for a so-far-unanswered question and my finding it! So not quite one of our common synchrographies.)

[Quizmonster]

Moments later...something odd's going on here! I was about to respond to the Black Watch question below - which also indicated "no answers" and, yet again, an answer from E was there once I'd clicked to go in there! It's possible both have been there for hours rather than the moments I suggested in my above reply.  

[Wraith]

Try this link.

 

http://www.hastings1066.com/

 

If you scroll down the screen you will see a button

 

Construction and History

[montyy]

nuns, i think... lots of nuns....

[Ewood27]

I put my answers up about 4.30 p.m., QM, as near as I can remember. I did them in quick succession, certainly, courtesy of Google.

[Midgardrelm]

nuns yup, its always NUNS that did it!! Hmmmm. Did you know that before ol William the Conquerer became king of old Blighty, he was known as William the *******! i think his PR people did a really good job though after 1066!

[slimjim]

And there is a full-scale copy of it in the Museum of Reading in Berkshire.