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Panel from Bayeux Tapestry
Stitched on linen, in eight colours of worsted yarn, the Bayeux Tapestry is an amazing piece of medieval art started as early as 1067. It tells the story of William the Conqueror, Harold II and the Norman invasion - climaxing with the battle of Hastings.
It is one of the most important pictorial works surviving from the middle ages. While it is known as a tapestry, its true description is an embroidery of coloured wool on an unbleached linen background. It is a series of connected panels 203 feet long. Each panel is about 18 inches high. It is thought to have been sewn by English embroiderers in the embroidery works in Winchester. Many feel it was commissioned by Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, half brother of William the Conqueror.
It has had an amazing passage through time. During the French Revolution it covered a wagon-load of ammunition sent to the northern front where the Republican French were being attacked by Monarchist enemies. A lawyer of Bayeaux rescued it, replaced it with a waterproof cloth, carried it home and hid it. It stayed in his house for 30 years. It was then given into the care of the Bishop of Bayeux and to this day rests in the Bishop's Palace, Bayeux, Northern France.
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