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Bayeux Tapestry (1476) 貝葉掛毯 Normandy France

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he Bayeux Tapestry is preserved and displayed in Bayeux, in Normandy, France. Nothing is known for certain about the tapestry’s origins. The first written record of the Bayeux Tapestry is in 1476 when it was recorded in the cathedral treasury at Bayeux as a very long and narrow hanging on which are embroidered figures and inscriptions comprising a representation of the conquest of England.
The Bayeux Tapestry was probably commissioned in the 1070s by Bishop Odo of Bayeux, half-brother of William the Conqueror. It is over 70 metres long and although it is called a tapestry it is in fact an embroidery, stitched not woven in woollen yarns on linen. Some historians argue that it was embroidered in Kent, England. The original tapestry is on display at Bayeux in Normandy, France.
It was the idea of Elizabeth Wardle to make the replica Bayeux Tapestry, now on display in Reading Museum. She was a skilled embroiderer and a member of the Leek Embroidery Society in Staffordshire. Her husband, Thomas Wardle was a leading silk industrialist. Elizabeth Wardle researched the Bayeux Tapestry by visiting Bayeux in 1885. The Society also based the replica on hand-coloured photographs of the tapestry held by the South Kensington Museum, now called the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. The aim of the project was to make a full-sized and accurate replica of the Bayeux Tapestry so that England should have a copy of its own.
Thirty-five women members of the Leek Embroidery Society worked under Elizabeth Wardle's direction. This ambitious project was completed in just over a year. As well as members from Leek, women from Derbyshire, Birmingham, Macclesfield and London took part. Each embroiderer stitched her name beneath her completed panel.
The replica Bayeux Tapestry was first exhibited in the Nicholson Institute in Leek in 1886. Over the next ten years the tapestry was put on display in towns and cities across Britain and it even travelled to Germany and America.
In 1895 the replica Bayeux Tapestry was exhibited in the Town Hall at Reading. The Reading exhibition was supported by Alderman Arthur Hill, a former Mayor. Hill offered to buy the replica. This offer was accepted by the Leek Embroidery Society. He then presented the tapestry as a gift to Reading where it was displayed in the Reading Museum and Art Gallery.
In 1993 a new Bayeux Tapestry gallery was opened in the Museum. The tapestry was carefully conserved and remounted as a continuous strip in a specially designed display case. For the first time for many years the entire tapestry could be seen in one gallery.
Now you can visit the Bayeux Tapestry gallery and see for yourself the work of the skilled Victorian women of Leek as well as discovering the story of the Norman Conquest.
Bayeux掛毯被保存並顯示在法國諾曼底的巴約。沒有什麼是一些掛毯的起源。 Bayeux掛毯是在1476年，當時它被記錄在巴約的大教堂財寶中，“一個非常漫長而狹窄的掛在其上代表征服英國”。
Bayeux掛毯可能在1070年由巴約主教Odo委託，征服者威廉的半兄弟。它超過70米長，雖然它被稱為掛毯，實際上是刺繡，縫合在亞麻布上的羊毛紗中編織。有些歷史學家認為這是在英國肯特的繡花。原始的掛毯在法國諾曼底的貝葉展出。
正是伊麗莎白·沃德（Elizabeth Wardle）創作的複製品貝葉掛毯（Bayeux Tapestry），現在在閱讀博物館展出。她是斯塔福德郡魁北克刺繡協會的技術嫻熟的繡花工作者。每個丈夫托馬斯·沃德（Thomas Wardle）都是領先的絲綢實業家。伊麗莎白·沃德（Elizabeth Wardle）於1885年拜訪了貝葉（Bayeux Tapestry），研究了貝葉掛毯。該協會還以倫敦維多利亞和阿爾伯特博物館南康寧博物館舉辦的掛毯的手繪照片為基礎。該項目的目的是為了使全面和準確的Bayeux掛毯複製品，“使英國應該有一個自己的副本”。
韭菜刺繡協會的三十五名婦女在伊麗莎白·沃德的指導下工作。這個雄心勃勃的項目剛剛完成了一年多。除了來自韭菜的成員，還有來自德比郡，伯明翰，麥克斯菲爾德和倫敦的婦女參加。每個繡花線條在每個完成的面板下方縫合每個名稱。
複製品Bayeux Tapestry於1886年首次在韭蔥尼科爾森研究所展出。在接下來的十年中，掛毯在城市和城市上展出，甚至前往德國和美國。
在1895年，複製品Bayeux Tapestry在Reading的市政廳展出。閱讀展覽由前市長Alderman Arthur Hill支持。希爾提供購買副本。這個建議被韭菜刺繡協會接受。然後他把掛毯作為禮物送給了讀書。
1993年在博物館開設了一個新的Bayeux掛毯畫廊。掛毯在專門設計的外殼中被仔細保存並重新安裝成連續條。多年來第一次，整個掛毯可以在一個畫廊看到。
現在您可以參觀Bayeux掛毯畫廊，並發現諾曼征服的故事。

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