Tuesday 2 October 2012

Bayeux Tapestry
















The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidered cloth ( art or handicraft of decorating fabric or any other available materials with a needle and yarn or thread). Bayeux Tapestry is not an actual tapestry, its nearly 70 metres long that presents the events that show leading up to the Norman conquest of England that involved William,Duke of Normandy and Harold,Earl of Wessex. The tapestry itself consists of some fifty scenes with Latin captions embroidered on linen with woollen yarns. The famous tapestry is now exhibited at Musee de la Tapisserie de Bayeux in Bayeux,Normandy,France













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