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History => Ancient and Medieval History => Topic started by: DBS on February 16, 2022, 04:23:08 PM

Title: Woman copying the Bayeux Tapestry...
Post by: DBS on February 16, 2022, 04:23:08 PM
In case anyone ever thinks that wargamers are sad and obsessive...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-60403281
Title: Re: Woman copying the Bayeux Tapestry...
Post by: Imperial Dave on February 16, 2022, 04:38:39 PM
 ;D
Title: Re: Woman copying the Bayeux Tapestry...
Post by: Duncan Head on February 16, 2022, 05:13:16 PM
Can she do that? I thought Disney had bought the copyright...
Title: Re: Woman copying the Bayeux Tapestry...
Post by: Imperial Dave on February 16, 2022, 05:38:56 PM
blimey....hope they tell her before she finishes it ::)
Title: Re: Woman copying the Bayeux Tapestry...
Post by: Justin Swanton on February 16, 2022, 06:11:07 PM
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."
Title: Re: Woman copying the Bayeux Tapestry...
Post by: Nick Harbud on February 17, 2022, 08:34:14 AM
As an extra challenge, she could seek to modernise various scenes....   ;D

(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0210/4540/products/simon_drew_cards195_1024x1024.png?v=1506541878)
Title: Re: Woman copying the Bayeux Tapestry...
Post by: Justin Swanton on February 17, 2022, 10:01:44 AM
Indeed. There are all sorts of ways of making them relatable.

(https://i.imgur.com/Rvm16f7.jpg)
Title: Re: Woman copying the Bayeux Tapestry...
Post by: Imperial Dave on February 17, 2022, 10:27:32 AM
 ;D
Title: Re: Woman copying the Bayeux Tapestry...
Post by: Nick Harbud on February 17, 2022, 01:32:11 PM
Quote from: Justin Swanton on February 17, 2022, 10:01:44 AM
Indeed. There are all sorts of ways of making them relatable.

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

Title: Re: Woman copying the Bayeux Tapestry...
Post by: Justin Swanton on February 17, 2022, 01:58:35 PM
Quote from: NickHarbud on February 17, 2022, 01:32:11 PM
Quote from: Justin Swanton on February 17, 2022, 10:01:44 AM
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.
Title: Re: Woman copying the Bayeux Tapestry...
Post by: Imperial Dave on February 17, 2022, 04:47:19 PM
I may allow myself a slight guffaw at that.....
Title: Re: Woman copying the Bayeux Tapestry...
Post by: Chuck the Grey on February 18, 2022, 03:01:16 AM
I just groaned.  ::)
Title: Re: Woman copying the Bayeux Tapestry...
Post by: Denis Grey on February 18, 2022, 10:18:32 AM
I had always believed that the "mistakes" were included deliberately to allow forgeries to be detected more easily.
Title: Re: Woman copying the Bayeux Tapestry...
Post by: Erpingham on February 18, 2022, 10:31:19 AM
Quote from: Denis Grey on February 18, 2022, 10:18:32 AM
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.