Comment on Bayeux Tapestry arrives in UK for first time in 900 years under police guard

SMillerNL@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It was made here, so it didn’t arrive from anywhere else (though the linen/wool etc may have).

  I don’t know how it left 900 years ago though.

  Probably just rolled it up and chucked it on a horse and carriage, and then a boat. It would have been a lot less fragile then.

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