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	bayeux broderie : Selling of embroidery kits from the bayeux tapestry and other patterns. Kits à broder.
		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.
		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.
	www.bayeux-broderie.com /en (216 words)

	The Bayeux Tapestry - LoveToKnow 1911
		BAYEUX TAPESTRY This venerable relic consists of a band of linen, 231 ft. long and 20 in.
		Narrowly escaping the perils of the Revolution, it was exhibited in Paris, by Napoleon's desire, in 1803-1804, and has since been in civil custody at Bayeux, where it is now exhibited under glass.
		In 1902 M. Marignan questioned, on archaeological grounds, the date assigned to the tapestry, as the Abbe de la Rue had questioned it ninety years before; but his arguments were refuted by Gaston Paris and M. Lanore, and the authority of the tapestry was vindicated.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /The_Bayeux_Tapestry (522 words)

	Bayeux tapestry - Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bayeux tapestry This so-called tapestry is in fact an embroidery that chronicles the Norman conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066.
		The embroidery is preserved in the Bayeux Museum.
		Using the Bayeux tapestry to discover the past.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Bayeuxta.html (1041 words)

	The Bayeux Tapestry - The Tapestry House
		The Bayeux tapestry is the epic embroidered textile detailing one of history's most famous events, the Battle of Hastings.
		In 1070, shortly after the battle, a wall tapestry was commissioned by Bishop Odo of Bayeux, William the Conqueror's half-brother.
		Designed and manufactured in Kent, England the Bayeux Tapestry is 230ft long and 20 inches high, and survives to this day in a specially constructed museum in Bayeux, Northern France.
	www.thetapestryhouse.com /products/list/medieval-bayeux.html (215 words)

	No. 1905: The Bayeux Tapestry
		The Bayeux Tapestry is reminiscent of a Medieval stained glass window, but it's simpler to read.
		And that is exactly why the Bayeux Tapestry is such a marvel among historical documents.
		And a number of articles on various aspects of the Tapestry may be read in The Study of the Bayeux Tapestry (Richard Gameson, ed.) Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1997.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1905.htm (583 words)

	Bayeux Tapestry
		The Bayeux Tapestry is the most important source to the Battle of Hastings, there are 11 battle scenes, however by the time it was finished the battle was almost forgotten and some battle events still remain a mystery.
		The Bayeux Tapestry is the most important source on the Battle of Hastings although it was finished several years after the battle.
		The Bayeux Tapestry is an excellent source on the battle because it shows us what the soldiers used during the battle and what they had on for protection.
	www.fischer-mellbin.com /Marcus/Marcus_Stories/Bayeux_Tapestry/bayeux_tapestry.html (1857 words)

	Bayeux Tapestry - MSN Encarta
		Bayeux Tapestry, medieval embroidery narrating in cartoon-like scenes the events leading up to the Norman invasion of England and William the Conqueror's conquest of the country at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
		The Tapestry was once considered to be the work of Mathilda of Flanders, wife of William the Conqueror, but is more likely to have been commissioned by Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, in Normandy, and half-brother of William, and intended to hang in the cathedral in Bayeux.
		The Tapestry is most valuable for its representation of the costume, arms, battle tactics, and manners of the Normans before the Norman Conquest; it gives more details of the events represented than does contemporary literature.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761553879/Bayeux_Tapestry.html (233 words)

	Bayeux Tapestry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bayeux Tapestry (French: Tapisserie de Bayeux) is a 50 cm by 70 m (20 in by 230 ft) long embroidered cloth which depicts scenes commemorating the Battle of Hastings in 1066, with annotations in Latin.
		The tapestry was rediscovered in the late 17th century in Bayeux (where it had been traditionally displayed once a year at the Feast of the Relics), and engravings of it were published in the 1730s by Bernard de Montfaucon.
		The main character of the tapestry is William the Conqueror.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bayeux_Tapestry (2020 words)

	The Bayeux Tapestry (France) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The town of Bayeux, in Normandy, the former capital city of the Gaul tribe of Bajocasses, was the cradle of the Norman dynasty.
		Bayeux is one of the only cities of coastal Lower-Normandy which was neither damaged nor destroyed during the Second World War after the allied landing in June 1944, allowing the Tapestry to have been preserved until now.
		Perrin wrote that it is the largest gonfanon on the tapestry, and although it is being held aloft by a person identified as Eustace of Boulogne, it is considered to be the gonfanon consecrated and sent by Pope Alexander, and adopted by William as his personal gonfanon before the invasion.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/fr_bayxt.html (1205 words)

	Bayeux
		The Bayeux Tapestry is one of the most important pictorial works surviving from the middle ages, and certainly the most important from the eleventh century.
		The first half of the Tapestry depict the adventures of Harold Godwinson, who was wrecked in Ponthieu in 1064 and was ransomed from the count of Ponthieu by William, duke of Normandy (1046-1087).
		Although the tapestry portrays a leopard in place of a fox, the moral is the same and the reason for pointing to this particular fable at this particular place is quite clear.
	bdaugherty.tripod.com /normandie/bayeux.html (1029 words)

	::The Bayeaux Tapestry::
		Tapestries were not rare in the time of William but the size of this particular tapestry is an indication that it was important.
		No-one is completely sure where the tapestry was made but one theory put forward was that it was done by women in Canterbury, Kent, where there was a famous school of tapestry who used a style of work very similar to that found on the tapestry itself.
		Though the tapestry was almost certainly done by women, the design and plan of it was probably done by a man as the detail of the soldiers who fought at the Battle of Hastings is such that only a soldier or ex-soldier would have known of such detail.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /bayeaux_tapestry.htm (677 words)

	The history of Bayeux tapestry
		Bayeux has a very long history, and was quite a venerable town even when the Bayeux tapestry was made, nearly a millennium ago.
		Bayeux Cathedral as it now stands was built around the time of the Norman Conquests, although as with most other centers of religious importance, there had been a place of worship on the site for much longer.
		The Bayeux Tapestry is on view to the public in an old seminary known as the Centre Guillaume.
	ohoh.essortment.com /historybayeuxt_rlyi.htm (1009 words)

	Bayeux - Wikitravel
		Bayeux [1] is a small town (population 16,000) in northern France within the region of Basse-Normandie.
		Bayeux is best known for the remarkable Bayeux Tapestry that chronicles in visual form the conquest of England by William the Conquerer, Duke of Normandy, in 1066.
		Bayeux was the first French town to be liberated from Nazi occupation during the 1944 Battle of Normandy and survived almost completely unscathed.
	wikitravel.org /en/Bayeux (327 words)

	Norman Conquest of England - The Entire Bayeux Tapestry
		The Bayeux Tapestry has preserved the glory of the Norman Conquest of England, and the drama of Harold of Wessex and Duke William of Normandy for over 900 years.
		The 231-foot-long tapestry is a Norman document, but the style of the figures sewn in colored wools leads some scholars to believe that Englishmen from Canterbury actually stitched the Bayeux Tapestry.
		Following is the complete Bayeux Tapestry including the literal latin translation, and a description of the events depicted in each of the 48 web-sized panels.
	members.tripod.com /~mr_sedivy/med_bay.html (523 words)

	Bayeux Tapestry
		The tapestry is a chronicle of images, of the sort known from Oriental and Roman art, a story about war and victory, and the story is told with a remarkable vivacity.
		The Bayeux Tapestry is a needlework panorama, representing the invasion and conquest of England by William the Conqueror, preserved in the Musée de la Reine Mathilde in Bayeux, France.
		Odo of Bayeux (1036-1097) was Anglo-Norman bishop and earl of Kent.
	arthistory.heindorffhus.dk /frame-TapestryBayeux.htm (791 words)

	Bayeux Tapestry - Cunnan
		The Bayeux Tapestry (French: Tapisserie de Bayeux) is not actually a tapestry (that is, a weaving), but is embroidery.
		The misidentification of Harold II of England in the tapestry has led to the widespread but incorrect idea that Harold was killed by an arrow striking his eye.
		While political propaganda or personal emphasis may have somewhat distorted the historic accuracy of the story, the Bayeux tapestry presents a unique visual document of medieval arms, apparel, and other objects.
	cunnan.sca.org.au /wiki/Bayeux_Tapestry (320 words)

	AEMMA: Bayeux Tapestry
		Whereas it is known as the Bayeux Tapestry in England, it is sometimes referred to in France as the Tapisserie de la reine Mathilde or Queen Matilda's Tapestry.
		Over the years, the Tapestry as been studied by experts in this field and the consensus of opinion is that it was of English construction.
		To avoid the Tapestry being damaged during the inevitable conflict, it was secretly moved to the Louvre in Paris where it was stored in their vaults.
	www.aemma.org /onlineResources/bayeux/bayeuxIntro.html (1110 words)

	History of Art: Gothic Art-Tapestry,Bayeux Tapestry
		The Bayeux Tapestry, the most famous example of this form of medieval instruction, is - as a historical document and work of art - sans pareil.
		Hung at Bayeux Cathedral, it served as an official declaration, as well as a means of religious and moral indoctrination.
		The Bayeux Tapestry shows only the most important part of the ceremony: the oath sworn on the relics.
	www.all-art.org /history194-29tapestry.html (2396 words)

	Bayeux Tapestry
		One of the most important historical events of the Medieval era is the Bayeux Tapestry which celebrated the history and the story of William the Conqueror, the Norman invasion of England and the Battle of Hastings.
		The upper and lower borders of the Bayeux tapestry are filled with mythological figures, lions, dragons, farming and Hunting and scenes from Aesops fables.
		The Bayeux tapestry was made by nuns who embroidered scenes from the Norman invasion and the Battle of Hastings on eight linen panels which were then sewn together.
	www.middle-ages.org.uk /bayeux-tapestry.htm (1570 words)

	Bayeux Tapestries \| Wall Tapestry \| Home Decor
		The original Bayeux tapestry is an embroidery that is roughly 20”tall and 230 ft long.
		The Bayeux Tapestry has preserved the glory of the Norman Conquest of England, and the drama of Harold of Wessex and Duke William of Normandy for over 900 years.
		The 231-foot-long tapestry is a Norman document, but the style of the figures sewn in colored wools leads some scholars to believe that Englishmen from Canterbury actually stitched the Bayeux Tapestry.
	www.designerwalltapestries.com /Bayeux_Tapestries_s/22.htm (340 words)

	Bayeux Tapestry of Reading
		rant in Bayeux, Normandy, is the Bayeux Tapestry, not a woven tapestry at all but instead a 230'-9" (nearly 70m) strip of linen averaging 18 to 20" (46-51cm) in width.
		Numbered amongst the treasures of the Cathedral of Bayeux in an accounting of 1476, it was nearly cut up for use as munitions waggon coverings in the 18th century.
		If as Jan Messent suggests the Bayeux Tapestry was the work of six or seven English convents, most within ten or fifteen miles of the next, the conditions under which it was created were not dissimilar from those shared by Elizabeth Wardle's dedicated band of local women.
	www.octavia.net /text/bayeux.htm (2649 words)

	Bayeux Tapestry, The Bayeux Tapestry is the one activity that should not to be missed in Normandy
		Bayeux Tapestry, The Bayeux Tapestry is the one activity that should not to be missed in Normandy
		The Bayeux Tapestry is the one activity that should not to be missed in Normandy.
		After the Exhibition, the visit to the Tapestry is accompanied by an individual sound track commentary available in 14 languages for you to fully appreciate the beauty of the Tapestry and William's prowess which it portrays.
	www.normandy-hotel-bayeux.com (469 words)

	The Bayeux Tapestry and Font
		The Bayeux Tapestry is the most important historical document from the period of 1066 and the Battle of Hastings.
		The first written record of the Bayeux Tapestry is in 1476 when it was recorded in the cathedral treasury at Bayeux as "a very long and narrow hanging on which are embroidered figures and inscriptions comprising a representation of the conquest of England".
		The history of the Bayeux Tapestry is nicely presented, along with many graphics and interpretations at www.bayeuxtapestry.org.uk.
	www.graphic-design.com /Type/bayeux/index.html (762 words)

	Bayeux Tapestry (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bayeux Tapestry, medieval embroidery depicting the Norman Conquest of England in
		Bayeux; Odo is prominent in the later scenes, and three of the very few
		The tapestry is of greater interest as a work of art.
	lilt.ilstu.edu /jhreid/bayeux_tapestry.htm (390 words)

	The Bayeux Tapestry
		Bishop Odo must have known of this school and this may have been the spur for the Bayeux tapestries construction as opposed to him deciding on a Tapestry and then deciding who should make it.
		The Tapestry as it exists today covers the arrival of Harold in Normandy and concludes with his death and defeat of the English.
		To this end, an English draughtsman was sent to Bayeux to inspect and catalogue it.
	www.battle1066.com /bayeux2.shtml (1545 words)

	The Bayeux Tapestry
		The Bayeux Tapestry was created at the order of Bishop Odo, half-brother of William the Conqueror.
		Tradition attributes the making of the Tapestry to William's wife, Matilda, but it is now believed by some to have been the work of English craftswomen.
		In 1945 it was returned to the Palace of the Bishops of Bayeux, restored and displayed in a protective frame.
	sio.midco.net /danstopicalstamps/tapestry.htm (314 words)

	the bayeux tapestry
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		The Bayeux Tapestry (French: Tapisserie de Bayeux) is a 50 cm by 70 m (20in by 230ft) long embroidered cloth which depicts scenes commemorating the Battle of Hastings in 1066, with annotations in Latin.
	tapestry.hobbydollars.com /the-bayeux-tapestry (729 words)

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