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Maybe people on the internet would enjoy this 10 year old meme in embroidery form. Kit by https://www.etsy.com/shop/CraftyQueerDesigns
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präsentiert ohne kontext und entschuldigung
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can he be in the Bayeux Tapestry
how’s this?
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My dealer: got some straight gas this strain is called "the battle of hastings" you'll be zonked out of your gourd
Me: Yeah whatever I don't feel shit
5 minutes later: dude I swear I just saw some normans off the coast
My buddy Ælfric pacing: the king is lying to us
#medievalism#battle of hastings#norman conquest#norman invasion#medieval history#middle ages#william the conqueror#edward the confessor#Bayeux Tapestry#1066#old english
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⚔️Bayeux Tape⚔️
New in store, washi tape based on the marginalia in the Bayeux Tapestry - illustrated by me.
Also after MCM I am running low on a few prints especially the Tears of the Kingdom ones (completely out of A4 size and only a few A5 left) so get one now to avoid a wait for me to get them reprinted.
Etsy: tiffbaxtershop
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I found this website where you can make medieval-style memes.
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Went outside and did a lil sketch, aswell that i began my first embroidery, behold...
Mermastarion(?
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Papa Emeritus II à la the Bayeux Tapestry
Info dump/explanation below the cut
Like all fanfic authors, I fell down a research rabbit hole. You know, you make your character do embroidery because you yourself have recently take it up and know some things about it. But then you realize that you, in fact, know nothing about medieval embroidery. And after a day of research you're like "ah, I must of course try this myself." So, here we are, three weeks later, and one historically accurate-ish project later.
I based Secondo's pose off of this guy on the Tapestry.
I used the stitches (laid work/Bayeux stitch and stem stitch) attested to on the Tapestry. The stitches were worked in mostly 2-ply darning thread from Schachenmayr (because I literally only today found a place to buy real crewel work thread). But the gold, red, and face part of the black was standard cotton DMC embroidery floss.
I actually really enjoyed this project and am so, so tempted to do more scenes. Perhaps the moment when Terzo is dragged off stage? For the dynamic drama. But I might need someone to help with the line work since I can't just trace an existing dude. We'll see
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Bereavement
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The bestiary of old, weird England is expanded with some intriguing additions from the Bayeux Tapestry. What William the Bastard took away from us is beyond belief.
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Napoleon and the Bayeux Tapestry
In 1803-1804, this tapestry was borrowed from Bayeux in Normandy for a two-month exhibition at the Musée Napoléon (Louvre).
Vivant Denon’s letter to the sub-prefect of Bayeux the following year:
“I am sending back to you the Tapestry embroidered by Queen Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror. The First Consul has seen with interest this precious monument of our history, he has applauded the care that the habitants of the city of Bayeux have brought for seven and a half centuries to its conservation. He has charged me to testify to them all his satisfaction and to entrust them with the deposit. Invite them to bring new care to the conservation of this fragile monument, which retraces one of the most memorable actions of the French Nation.”
(20 February 1804)
Napoleon attended the opening of the exhibition on 5 December 1803, with Denon and Visconti.
A press release for the exhibition was published in the ‘Beaux-Arts’ column in Le Moniteur on 29 November and in the tabloid Journal de Paris on 28 November. Visconti wrote a guide for the artwork which was partially reprinted in Le Moniteur.
The tapestry was returned to Bayeux two months later, on 18 February 1804. Many in Paris wanted to keep it in the city, but Napoleon ordered that it be returned.
Previously, the historic tapestry had been confiscated during the French Revolution. It was covering military wagons and almost cut up when a local lawyer, Léonard Lambert-Leforestier, saved it by sending it to city administrators for safekeeping.
The tapestry depicts the William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy. The piece was made about a decade after his 1066 invasion of England and the purpose of the tapestry was to glorify the invasion.
It was displayed to the public in Bayeux in 1812 and has been publicly displayed ever since:
“From 1812 the Tapestry was kept in the Hotel de Ville (city hall) in Bayeux. It was generally hung and displayed to the public in September of every year. In addition, the custodian could show it to visitors, rolling it out gradually on a table by turning the crank handle of a winder: this way of exhibiting it was described on several occasions by British writers between 1814 and 1836. From 1842, it was put on permanent display for the first time in the Matilda gallery.”
Sources:
Susan Jaques, The Caesar of Paris: Napoleon Bonaparte, Rome, and the Artistic Obsession that Shaped an Empire
Carola Hicks, The Bayeux Tapestry: The Life Story of a Masterpiece
Bayeux Museum: From Odo’s Cathedral to the Louvre
#Bayeux Tapestry#Bayeux#Napoleon#napoleon bonaparte#napoleonic#napoleonic era#first french empire#french empire#19th century#william the conqueror#France#history#art#norman invasion#1066#Susan Jaques#Carola Hicks#The Caesar of Paris#The Caesar of Paris: Napoleon Bonaparte Rome and the Artistic Obsession that Shaped an Empire#Vivant Denon#Denon#tapestry#embroidery#tapestries#Middle Ages#medieval#medieval history#french history#louvre
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The Battle of Hastings sketch by Terry Jones and Michael Palin, made for the show Twice a Fortnight. It was written and filmed in 1967, so two years before either The Complete and Utter History of Britain or Flying Circus. 10 years after The Seventh Seal, however, but maybe I'm reading too much into it.
#battle of hastings#medieval britain#british history#terry jones#michael palin#British comedy#the complete and utter history of Britain#monty python#twice a fortnight#1960s#bayeux tapestry#william the conqueror
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Time.
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I don't think my students will appreciate this one so here, tumblr, go wild
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