Show the bayeux tapestry was brought into general ansa in western europe with many mothr elegan cies of life by the moors of spain the oldest known specimen is the bayeux tapestry an epic in embroidery carefully treasured for centuries m the cathedral of baleus and now preserved in the hotel de villo of that place misa says of this cioce of work it ia beyond all compo tiHon most wonderful achievement in the gentle craft of needlework that ever was executed by fair and royal hands it was done by matilda of flanders wife of william the conqueror and the ladies of her court it ia a coarse kinec cloth feet long and 20 inches wide on which ia worked in woolen thread of various colors a representation of the invasion and conquest of england bytha normans it contains the figures of about men horses fifty five dogs forty chips and boats besides a quantity of birds trees houses castles ind churches all executed in the proper colors with names and inscriptions over them to elucidate the story it ia a valuable historic document as it gives a correct and minute portraiture of the norman costumes and their manners and customs comans womans aoa |