The Bayeux tapestry is being loaned to United Kingdom

MartavTaurus

I just knew it!
We're being fleeced to go and see the Bayeux Tapestry in the UK. £33 a ticket, with a couple of cheaper options if you want a quick glance before closing time.
It was only 10 or 12 euros when I saw it last year in France.

To be fair, we've got to claw back some of the transportation and insurance costs, but the pesky French must be laughing at us looking after "their" (??) chef d'oeuvre while they rebuild their museum in Bayeux!

Yes, only the British would offer to bear the enormous costs of looking after a French exhibit for them while they improve their museum 😂
Especially as it portrays our defeat at the hands of the Normans, those pesky French Vikings.

My passport has expired and, at 80, I'm really not going to pay over £100 for a new one. We never got round to seeing the taoestry on any of our trips to France so I will be quite happy to pay £33 to see it now.

GrannyGravy13

I am thinking of going, must get myself sorted

I think tickets go on sale July 1st.

* The OP has incorrect dates.

I am thinking of going, must get myself sorted

I have seen it twice in Bayeux, several years apart, and found it fascinating.

I just knew it!
We're being fleeced to go and see the Bayeux Tapestry in the UK. £33 a ticket, with a couple of cheaper options if you want a quick glance before closing time.
It was only 10 or 12 euros when I saw it last year in France.

To be fair, we've got to claw back some of the transportation and insurance costs, but the pesky French must be laughing at us looking after "their" (??) chef d'oeuvre while they rebuild their museum in Bayeux!

In conjunction with the discussion on the Bayeux Tapestry, this dramatisation was bloody good, starting last night and on iplayer.
To be recommended if you enjoy following history from various angles.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m0024pyz/king-conqueror

escaped

I've just thought it might be my rushed translation earlier, because les mites are also moths in French. That would make more sense.

Ah!

So should we sprinkle peppercorns round the edges of our wool carpets?

Visited it when on holiday there a couple of times. It is enormous.

I've just thought it might be my rushed translation earlier, because les mites are also moths in French. That would make more sense.

Bay leaves deter flour mites ( but having put them everywhere I found that they were poisonous to dogs so I’ve had to remove them).

Oh, who knew! Thank you.

We have a bay tree, must watch the dog when he visits.

I’m sure that, when I had an infestation for flour mites, they got into everything, including my peppercorns because I still keep everything in airtight containers and also wrap them in cling film. But maybe there are different mites. Bay leaves deter flour mites ( but having put them everywhere I found that they were poisonous to dogs so I’ve had to remove them). Given the battles I’ve had recently with bugs I don’t know how National Trust properties keep on top of things like that.

Peppercorns!

Do spiders dislike them? Could I hang some in the conservatory?

Another thing I didn't know escaped.
I could do with some of their expertise here.

And did you know - according to my book from the museum - that hundreds of peppercorns were stitched into the hems and have successfully deterred mites over the years. Clever people those stitchers.

RosieandherMaw

Don't forget who embroidered it in the first place.
Although commissioned by Bishop Odo for Bayeux cathedral, and the exact individuals who embroidered it remain a mystery, historians generally agree that it was likely made in England, possibly in Kent, by Anglo-Saxon women skilled in embroidery.

I don't think we could use that as an excuse for keeping it, though.

Using that logic we could insist on repossessing all goods made by British workers over the centuries and sold out of the country

And, as far a Bishop Odo is concerned, England was part of Normandy, by conquest, so the 'tapestry' just went to another part of Normandy...

I didn't know that RosieandherMaw
How interesting .
When I saw the Danish replica last year, it was the first time I had seen it properly in all its gory, glory.

How it has survived so long is a miracle.

I enjoy the great tapestry of Scotland at Galashiels which takes more than one visit to see properly and the Quaker tapestry in Kendal is another worth seeing.
www.greattapestryofscotland.com
www.quaker-tapestry.co.uk

Don't forget who embroidered it in the first place.
Although commissioned by Bishop Odo for Bayeux cathedral, and the exact individuals who embroidered it remain a mystery, historians generally agree that it was likely made in England, possibly in Kent, by Anglo-Saxon women skilled in embroidery.

keepingquiet

windmill1

keepingquiet

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

Yes, London-centric as per usual.

The rest of us might be lucky enough to see a pic of it in The Guardian.

I do love London. I don't know if I will get to to see this exhibition though, and neither will thousands of others.

Other cities are available...

But….. Manchester or Truro or Birmingham are a step too far for many as well.

RosieandherMaw

escaped

I don't know Hastings at all. Is there anywhere there it could have gone?

Of course the Battle of Hastings wasn’t at Hastings anyway but at Battle.
Battle of Battle doesn’t have quite the same ring.

Tho the town was only named Battle after the battle.😄

Allira

If you are into cross stitching at all, Bothy Threads DOES have a number of kits based on the Bayeux Tapestry, so you COULD technically have a portion of it in your living room

(My mother has a BA in French and read the Bayeux Tapestry, obviously a copy, not the original, as part of a course on medieval French literature. I am planning to buy these kits and make them for her at some point.)

I've just checked, and there's a museum in Battle.
A bit titchy though to accommodate 70 metres of cloth.

windmill1

keepingquiet

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

Yes, London-centric as per usual.

The rest of us might be lucky enough to see a pic of it in The Guardian.

I do love London. I don't know if I will get to to see this exhibition though, and neither will thousands of others.

Other cities are available...

escaped

I don't know Hastings at all. Is there anywhere there it could have gone?

Of course the Battle of Hastings wasn’t at Hastings anyway but at Battle.
Battle of Battle doesn’t have quite the same ring.

The British Museum doesn’t sound unreasonable to me - and I don’t live in London.