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Length 63, 38 metre, breadth 45,7 metres. |
This
embroidery stich comes from the Norman and English tradition.
It was used in the famous Bayeux Tapestry which is said done
by queen Mathilda in the 11th century. This embroidery
is roughly 76 yards long and listed on UNESCO's Memory of
the World Register. The Bayeux Tapestry tells the
story of the Norman conquest of England by duke William and
his men at Hastings on the 14th of October 1066.
An outline stich is embroidered to make the drawings as well
as the letters. These drawings are filled with , or "couloured"
with stich threads (couchure):
(see explication of the stich).
The tapestry is embroidered on a linen with woollen thread
in 6 dominant coulours.
The
tapestry was probably made in an Anglo-Saxon studio on the
request of Odon de Conteville, bishop of Bayeux and William
the Conquerors half-brother. It was supposed to legitimate
the Norman power in England. This longue piece of comic-strip
mediated the message to the people mostly illiterate.
The
Bayeux Tapestry is now exposed in William the Conqueror Museum
in Bayeux, Calvados.
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