The Bayeux tapestry is being loaned to United Kingdom

Also, when it returns to Bayeux I believe its going to go back to being in one long stretch instead of on the curve. I much prefer it in a line.

Other rumours I heard (!!) was that the Excel Centre might get it. It costs a lot of money to kit the space out with humidifiers, lighting etc.

I was only there in Bayeux in April, it was being agreed at the time.
I can't remember, is it all of it, as they mentioned it was possibly only part of it?

A replica (without the naughty bits) can be seen at Reading Museum. It was embroidered by 35 skilled Victorian women embroiderers in 1885 and depicts the events leading up and includes to the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

The women who embroidered it were members of the the Leek Embroidery Society led by a woman called Elizabeth Wardle, a skilled embroiderer and wife of Staffordshire silk-dyer Thomas Wardle.

Thomas Wardle was part of the Arts and Crafts movement led by William Morris and he dyed many of the silks and other materials needed by William Morris for his works.

I’m surprised they are moving the original it must be quite fragile after 1000 yrs.

How exciting! I saw an exact replica at Børglum Kloster, Jutland, North Denmark last year. No crowds and time to really take it all in.
It is such an amazing thing.

www.bayeuxtapetet.dk

Well, as we made it and the Normans purloined it, it is the least they can do.

We are reciprocating with stuff from the good ship Sutton Hoo.

Bet it's going to be in London...?