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

Tapestry is a form of textile art traditionally woven by hand on a loom. Tapestry is weft-faced weaving in which all the warp threads are hidden in the completed work unlike cloth weaving where both the warp and the weft threads may be visible. In tapestry weaving weft yarns are typically discontinuous; the artisan interlaces each coloured weft back and forth in its own small pattern area. It is a plain weft-faced weave having weft threads of different colours worked over portions of the warp to form the design.

Tapestry - Wikipedia

Tapestry - Wikipedia

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 Tap...


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