Woman copying the Bayeux Tapestry...

[DBS]

In case anyone ever thinks that wargamers are sad and obsessive...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-60403281

[Imperial Dave]

 

[Duncan Head]

Can she do that? I thought Disney had bought the copyright...

[Imperial Dave]

blimey....hope they tell her before she finishes it

[Justin Swanton]

She's right about the mistakes. The galloping horses look all wrong. 

Actually I can understand the thinking of the women who made the original tapistry: "That fool of a husband can't even put his clothes on by himself and now he wants me to make him look all heroic - two right hands and he'd better get the hint."

[Nick Harbud]

As an extra challenge, she could seek to modernise various scenes....   

[Justin Swanton]

Indeed. There are all sorts of ways of making them relatable.

[Imperial Dave]

 

[Nick Harbud]

Indeed. There are all sorts of ways of making them relatable.

That's gross.  My picture was tasteful, or at least, tasty.

[Justin Swanton]

Indeed. There are all sorts of ways of making them relatable.

That's gross.  My picture was tasteful, or at least, tasty.

Oh I don't know. I always think an artist should be free to give full vent to whatever she feels she just has to let out.

[Imperial Dave]

I may allow myself a slight guffaw at that.....

[Chuck the Grey]

I just groaned. 

[Denis Grey]

I had always believed that the "mistakes" were included deliberately to allow forgeries to be detected more easily.

[Erpingham]

I had always believed that the "mistakes" were included deliberately to allow forgeries to be detected more easily.

Makes sense.  11th century Europe being awash with 70m embroideries of the Battle of Hastings, you'd need to know yours was the original.