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Bayeux Tapestry. Bayeux Tapestry. An actual tapestry or embroidered cloth? Length : nearly 70 meter longer than the Along the River During the Qinming Festival ( 5.2 meter). Bayeux Tapestry. Material: embroidered on linen with coloured woollen yarns. Bayeux Tapestry.
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Bayeux Tapestry • An actual tapestry or embroidered cloth? • Length: nearly 70 meter longer than the Along the River During the Qinming Festival ( 5.2 meter)
Bayeux Tapestry • Material: embroidered on linen with colouredwoollen yarns.
Bayeux Tapestry • It is likely that it was commissioned by Bishop Odo, William's half-brother, and made in England—not Bayeux—in the 1070s. • designed and constructed in England byAnglo–Saxon artists
Bayeux Tapestry • two methods of stitching: 1 outline or stem for lettering and the outlines of figures 2couching or laid for filling in figures
Bayeux Tapestry • Style sometimes overflows into the borders either for dramatic effect
Bayeux Tapestry • Events take place in a long series of scenes which are generally separated by highly stylised trees.
Bayeux Tapestry • The start of the tapestry and the last section has been restored 1 The stitching and the stylised tree is quite unlike any other part of the tapestry 2 The main yarn colours are terracotta or russet, blue-green, dull gold, olive green, and blue, with small amounts of dark blue or black and sage green. Later repairs are worked in light yellow, orange, and light greens
Bayeux Tapestry • The tituli are included on many scenes of the action to point out names of people and places or to explain briefly the event being depicted
Bayeux Tapestry • Evaluation changed • Unfinished • Vulgar
Bayeux Tapestry • Tapestry by Philip Terry
Bayeux Tapestry • shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2013. • Taking as its starting point marginal images in the Bayeux Tapestry, largely unexplained by historians. • the point of view of the English nuns who embroidered the epic work in the 11th century