The Bayeux Tapestry, an enormous length of embroidered cloth depicting events culminating in the Battle of Hastings in 1066, ...

A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry depicting William the Conqueror’s half-brother, Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, encouraging his squires - Hulton Archive/Getty Images Some works of art are so famous that ...

In 1824, workers at Gobelins Manufactory in Paris, the most prestigious tapestry makers in the world, were convinced that they were having the wool pulled over their eyes. The problem had to do with ...

Researchers have unraveled a long standing mystery regarding the history of the Bayeux Tapestry—an embroidered cloth measuring around 230 foot long and 20 inches tall which tells the story of how the ...

The 11th-Century embroidery of the Norman Conquest has inspired communities across the world to stitch their own histories in fabric, to powerful effect, writes Sarah Woolley. For thousands of years ...

A NEW project recreating the Occupation Tapestry in paintings risked changing history with “absolutely awful” changes, one of the original supervisors has said. Philippa Romeril (85) criticised the ...

The Bayeux Tapestry has long been treated as a spectacular picture book of conquest, a 70-metre strip of embroidery that freezes the Norman invasion in thread. Now a new wave of scholarship argues ...