Bayeux Tapestry Embroidery Likely Begins

1067

In an English workshop - possibly at Canterbury - skilled needleworkers began embroidering the extraordinary linen strip that would immortalize the Norman Conquest. Using worsted wool in ten colors on a band nearly seventy meters long, they stitched more than seventy scenes from Edward the Confessor's death to Hastings and beyond. The work was likely commissioned by Bishop Odo of Bayeux, William's half-brother, and may have been completed in time for Bayeux Cathedral's dedication in 1077.