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A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry depicting Bishop Odo rallying Duke William's army during the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The Bayeux Tapestry [a] is an embroidered cloth nearly 70 metres (230 feet) long and 50 centimetres (20 inches) tall [1] that depicts the events leading up to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, led by William, Duke of Normandy challenging Harold II, King of England ...
Part of the Overlord Embroidery showing The Blitz. The Overlord Embroidery, echoing the Bayeux Tapestry created 900 years before to commemorate the reverse invasion of England from Normandy, is a narrative embroidery that depicts the story of the D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944 and the subsequent Battle of Normandy.
The Bayeux Tapestry tituli are Medieval Latin captions that are embroidered on the Bayeux Tapestry and describe scenes portrayed on the tapestry. These depict events leading up to the Norman conquest of England concerning William, Duke of Normandy , and Harold, Earl of Wessex, later King of England , and culminating in the Battle of Hastings .
Odo of Bayeux (died 1097) was Bishop of Bayeux in Normandy and was also made Earl of Kent in England following the Norman Conquest. He was the maternal half-brother of duke, and later king, William the Conqueror , and was, for a time, William's primary administrator in the Kingdom of England, although he was eventually tried for defrauding ...
Bayeux Tapestry created by the Leek Embroidery Society on display at Reading Museum, 2019. By 1885, thirty-seven ladies of the Leek School of Art Embroidery Society began work on a replica of the Bayeux Tapestry. [10] Elizabeth had seen the real Bayeux Tapestry while at an exhibition and believed that Britain should have its own version.
Elizabeth and Thomas had first seen the original tapestry on a visit to Bayeux in 1885 and Elizabeth determined to embroider a replica "so that England should have a copy of its own". As the original work uses wool, the Leek embroiders avoided the use of their typical fibre, silk.
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