Bayeux Tapestry
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The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroided brownish strip
of linen 214 feet (70m) long and 20 inches (50cm) wide. The tapestry consists of seventy-two scenes worked with
wollen thread of different colours It represents the principal events which preceded and accompanied King Harold of England and William's conquest in 1066. |
It was probably produced by English workmen at the end of the 11th century, tradition attributes it design to William's wife Matilda, probably with the help of William's half-brother Odo Bishop of Bayeux, it was probably manufactured for the cathedral of Bayex today it hangs in the museum of Bayeux (Hotel of the Prefecture) in Normandy France.
