The Use of Curved Templates in the Drawing of the Bayeux Tapestry

2020 ◽  
pp. 31-66
Author(s):  
Maggie Kneen ◽  
Gale R. Owen-Crocker
Keyword(s):  
Bayeux Tapestry

XXIV. Some Observations on the Bayeux Tapestry. By Mr. Charles Stothard, in a Letter addressed to Samuel Lysons, Esq. V.P. F.R.S.

Archaeologia ◽  
1821 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 184-191
Author(s):  
Charles Stothard
Keyword(s):  
The Subject ◽  
Bayeux Tapestry

On finishing and delivering to the Society of Antiquaries the Drawings which complete the series from the Bayeux Tapestry, I think it necessary to address you on the subject, for the purpose of stating what licences I may have thought proper to take in the discharge of my commission, and at the same time to point out such circumstances as have presented themselves to my notice during the minute investigation in which I have been necessarily engaged. I shall beg leave to offer with the latter such comments as I have made, hoping if I have produced nothing that will lead to just conclusions on the age of the Tapestry, I shall at least have furnished some useful materials for others. I believe in a former paper I observed that the work in some parts of the Tapestry was destroyed, but more particularly where the subject draws towards a conclusion. The traces of the design only existing by means of the holes where the needle had passed. On attentively examining the traces thus left, I found that in many places minute particles of the different coloured threads were still retained; a circumstance which suggested to me the possibility of making extensive restorations. I accordingly commenced on a small portion, and found it attended with so much practicability as well as certainty, that I believed I should be fully justified in attempting to restore the whole; more especially when I reflected that in the course of a few years, the means of accomplishing it would no longer exist.

King Harold II and the Bayeux Tapestry Edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker

History ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 91 (303) ◽  
pp. 445-446
Author(s):  
BARBARA YORKE
Keyword(s):  
Bayeux Tapestry

Performing Violence: Arms, Armour and Military Apparel

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver H. Creighton ◽  
Duncan W. Wright ◽  
Michael Fradley ◽  
Steven Trick
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Bayeux Tapestry

This chapter considers military apparel in in the mid-twelfth century and explores the interrelationship between changes in arms and armour and the creation of knightly identities. Outwardly, the mid-twelfth century knight looked quite similar to the Norman warriors depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, although with some subtle differences. By the 1130s and 40s the knight was a little better protected with mail covering more of the bodily extremities. A slightly wider range of military personnel would have been armoured, and minor stylistic differences are distinguishable in showier swords, shields, spurs and scabbards. More important in the actual prosecution of warfare was the changing use of the crossbow, which saw widespread use alongside ‘armour-piercing’ bodkin-type arrowheads. The battles of the period were also the first major military clashes in England where heraldic display was visible — in particular on banners and shields, but also more subtly on horse harness pendants. Such devices created a new means for displaying knightly allegiance, rank and affinities to elite social networks.

On the Bayeux Tapestry

1867 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-156
Author(s):  
J. R. Planché
Keyword(s):  
Bayeux Tapestry

The bayeux tapestry

1881 ◽  
Vol s6-IV (91) ◽  
pp. 245-246
Author(s):  
H. H. Drake
Keyword(s):  
Bayeux Tapestry
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