Bayeux Tapestry

1. Bayeux Tapestry

2. 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)

3. Bayeux Tapestry • Material: embroidered on linen with colouredwoollen yarns.

4. 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

5. Bayeux Tapestry • two methods of stitching: 1 outline or stem for lettering and the outlines of figures 2couching or laid  for filling in figures

6. Bayeux Tapestry • Style sometimes overflows into the borders either for dramatic effect

7. Bayeux Tapestry • Events take place in a long series of scenes which are generally separated by highly stylised trees.

8. 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

9. 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

10. Bayeux Tapestry • Evaluation changed • Unfinished • Vulgar

11. Bayeux Tapestry • Tapestry by Philip Terry

12. 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