A professor is challenging old assumptions about the iconic Bayeux Tapestry, proposing it was created for a refectory for ...

When the Getty Museum in Los Angeles began its research for the exhibition catalogue of “Woven Gold: Tapestries of Louis XIV” in 2014, its conservation team and decorative arts curator found a key to ...

The Bayeux Tapestry has long been treated as a spectacular picture book of conquest, a 70-metre strip of embroidery that freezes the Norman invasion in thread. Now a new wave of scholarship argues ...

The Bayeux Tapestry could be put on display in Britain following reports French president Emmanuel Macron has agreed to allow the artwork to leave France for the first time in 950 years. The tapestry, ...

A NEW project recreating the Occupation Tapestry in paintings risked changing history with “absolutely awful” changes, one of the original supervisors has said. Philippa Romeril (85) criticised the ...

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Spotify has immortalised lead singer Florence Welch as an 1800s-style tapestry. The streaming platform is marking the release of Florence + The Machine’s fifth studio album, Dance Fever. The tapestry, ...