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- That fanfic ending of the Bayeux Tapestry in Reading is an obvious Victorian fabrication. The original depicts the c-base space station crashing on earth. It can be viewed in Berlin:by bergie
- Someone should do a graphic novel version of the Bayeux tapestry based heavily on the original.by nephihaha
- The Bayeux Tapestry - all of it, from start to finishby zeristor
- Textile art enjoyers of HN may also like the https://www.greattapestryofscotland.com/ (near the ruins of Melrose Abbey), or the https://www.quaker-tapestry.co.uk/ (conveniently located in Kendal for visitors to the Lakes)
The original Bayeux tapestry is a remarkable artefact though, simply because so little art has survived from that period let alone fabrics. I wonder what the original expected lifetime of a wall tapestry was, especially in great halls warmed by open fires.
by pjc50 - On a related note here in England we also have the only known reproduction of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling in the world. It's a 2/3rds scale replica in a small plain looking church near Worthing on the south coast.
https://www.sistinechapeluk.co.uk/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g2j1gv9e4o
https://english-martyrs.co.uk/our-church/visiting-us/sistine...
by Steve44 - As an aside, I see that this blog has been around from early 2000s, and has been regularly updated, almost every day. Quite fascinating...by canistel
- I saw this. It was done by Victorian embroiderers, and was amazing, but the part I remember is one of the incidental characters. In the original, he was quite conspicuously nude; in the reproduction he was given a pair of shorts.by dtgriscom
- I saw the Bayeux tapestry in Bayeux in 1997. For 7 francs I got a 20 minute film that played alternately in English and French, as much time as I wanted to study a canvas replica, and a quickly moving line past the real thing behind plexiglass, wearing headphones that explained it that were coded for language with colored dots. Great experience. I was on a 6 week solo bike ride, and just before Bayeux I had been at the D-Day beaches 6 miles away ... another war almost 900 years later. And a few days earlier I had been on the mud flats at Mont St. Michel, the same ones that the tapestry (more of an embroidery) showed Harold rescuing a couple of soldiers from.by jibalt