The Bayeux Tapestry: Woven by the Victors
As the Bayeux Tapestry returns to England for the first time in nearly a thousand years, Eleanor Davis examines its origins. Likely made in Canterbury a decade after the Battle of Hastings, the embroidery may have been the work of English women, yet it remains a deeply partisan tribute to the Norman victory, with Anglo-Saxon voices largely silent within it.
If English hands made it, though, an English perspective is largely silent in the tapestry itself, that artful but deeply partisan tribute to the Norman victory.
- anitil
If you're interested to see some high resolution images of the tapestry there's one here [0] and Stefan Milo recently did a tour [1] which I really enjoyed - it captures a bit of the wonder that I imagine seeing it in person must evoke
[0] https://www.bayeuxmuseum.com/en/the-bayeux-tapestry/discover...
- Wildgoose
It was woven by English embroiderers, so it was woven by the victims of the Norman Conquest.
- expedition32
I never really understood why the tapestry is considered French. The Norman aristocracy at the time did not take orders from the French crown.