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From: PaulineG
Date: 04-16-2007, 08:54 AM (1 of 8)
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Came across this by accident - an animated Bayeux Tapestry. Isn't it amazing what people come up with? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDaB-NNyM8o Just makes me want to see the real thing even more. Pauline
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User: PaulineG
Member since: 09-08-2006 Total posts: 901 |
From: DorothyL
Date: 04-16-2007, 09:16 AM (2 of 8)
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That was amazing! I especially liked when they were crossing the water and someone got sea sick. Thanks for sharing. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: Magot
Date: 04-16-2007, 12:13 PM (3 of 8)
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What fun - I really enjoyed that. The real thing is HUGE Dorothy - that was an abridged version. It is good fun reading the French commentary as well - History from a different perspective
love and kisses, Jan
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User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626 
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From: lendube
Date: 04-16-2007, 01:05 PM (4 of 8)
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I loved that, Pauline! What a marvelous way of depicting history. Enjoyed it very much. Lennie 
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User: lendube
Member since: 08-06-2006 Total posts: 1548 |
From: trini
Date: 04-16-2007, 11:25 PM (5 of 8)
| Interesting: a well preserved depiction of a piece of history. |
User: trini
Member since: 09-17-2005 Total posts: 74 |
From: PaulineG
Date: 04-17-2007, 12:27 AM (6 of 8)
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I especially liked when they were crossing the water and someone got sea sick. Dorothy How on earth did I miss that! I had to go back and look again because I wasn't entirely sure if you were serious or not. Sound effects and all. Just the thought of a piece of needlework like this surviving for nearly a thousand years is awe inspiring. Both the craftsmanship and the depiction. Jan, is it still on display? Do you know anything about their conservation methods? Pauline
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User: PaulineG
Member since: 09-08-2006 Total posts: 901 |
From: Magot
Date: 04-17-2007, 12:22 PM (7 of 8)
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It is in Bayeaux - I saw it the other year when I was in France - totally awesome. Kept behind glass under low light, I don't know if they keep it sealed in Nitrogen, but the stiches are clear and easy to see - it is made mostly in chain and stem stitch with crewel type wool. The linen is remarkabley well preserved and you can still see the 5 original colours though they are a bit faded. They have a running commentary following on underneath all which , as I say, depicts history from the point of the French with William as a noble Lord (as he was) sorting out those troublesome Brits. ( has anything ever changed) The embroidery has an interesting history. No proper mention is made of it until 1476 when someone writing an inventory of what was found in Bayeaux Cathedral noted that a "very long and very narrow strip of linen, embroidered with figures and inscriptions representing the Conquest of England, which is hung round the nave of the church on the Feast of relics and throughout the Octave." During the troublesome days of the French Revolution, it was going to be used as a wrap-around for a wagon to save its contents from the weather, but it was saved at the last minute by a member of Bayeaux’s city council - Lambert Leonard-Leforestier. During World War Two, it was kept in an air-raid shelter. Bayeaux, as a city, remained undamaged in the war even though the Allied beach landings took place just miles from the city. In 1949, the tapestry was given an official exhibition centre. I would see it again and again. love and kisses, Jan
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User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626
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From: vickki
Date: 04-17-2007, 04:00 PM (8 of 8)
| This was cool,I called my son to come see it...He loves to read books of Medivial History and taught wow I'd love to have that.... |
User: vickki
Member since: 08-21-2005 Total posts: 374 |
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