Bayeux

In pre­vi­ous cen­turies, until you had been a mem­ber of the nobil­i­ty, a rich reli­gious order, or a mer­chant guild, your possibilities of spend­ing any sig­nif­i­cant period of time with a Medieval tapes­strive had been slim. Although “a lot professional­duc­tion was rel­a­tive­ly coarse, intend­ed for dec­o­ra­tive pur­pos­es,” writes the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Muse­um of Artwork, the tapes­strive…