Answer: embroidered cloth
What medium was used to make the Bayeux tapestry?

• Backhouse Janet; Turner D. H.; Webster Leslie eds. (1984). The Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Art 966–1066. London: British Museum Publications. ISBN 0-7141-0532-5. • Bernstein David J. (1986). "The Mystery of Bayeux Tapestry" Weidenfeld and Nicolson ISBN 0-297-78928-7

The Bayeux Tapestry is an ancestor of comic strip? Medieval storytelling was highly graphic (in large past as most people could not read) and there is a long tradition of graphic serial story telling that goes back to well pre-historic cave paintings. It's unclear what the connection to comic strips and the Bayeux Tapestry is.

Tapestry - Wikipedia

Tapestry - Wikipedia

The 'Bayeux Tapestry (a misnomer as it is really an embroidery not a tapestry ) tells the story of the Norman invasion of England in 1066. The theme of the Bayeux Tapestry is treason and deception. The narrative reflects a partisan Norman view of the events of the conquest of England. Though the tapestry seems to be framed becau...


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