It is likely that it was commissioned by Bishop Odo, William's half-brother, and made in England-not Bayeux-in the 1070s. The cloth consists of some seventy scenes, many with Latin tituli, embroidered on linen with coloured woollen yarns.
Its exceptional length, the harmony and freshness of its colours, its exquisite workmanship, and the genius of its guiding spirit combine to make it endlessly fascinating. Its survival almost intact over nine centuries is little short of miraculous . The Bayeux tapestry is one of the supreme achievements of the Norman Romanesque . It tells the story from the point of view of the conquering Normans but is now agreed to have been made in England.Īccording to Sylvette Lemagnen, conservator of the tapestry, in her 2005 book La Tapisserie de Bayeux: It is thought to date to the 11th century, within a few years after the battle. The Bayeux Tapestry ( UK: / b aɪ ˈ j ɜː, b eɪ-/, US: / ˈ b eɪ j uː, ˈ b aɪ-/ French: Tapisserie de Bayeux or La telle du conquest Latin: Tapete Baiocense) is an embroidered cloth nearly 70 metres (230 ft) long and 50 centimetres (20 in) tall that depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England concerning William, Duke of Normandy, and Harold, Earl of Wessex, later King of England, and culminating in the Battle of Hastings. A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry depicting Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, rallying Duke William's troops during the Battle of Hastings in 1066
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