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Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry

16 points • by zeristor • yesterday at 10:48 AM • 4 comments • view on HN

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bergie • today at 3:32 AM

That fanfic ending of the Bayeux Tapestry in Reading is an obvious Victorian fabrication. The original depicts the c-base space station crashing on earth. It can be viewed in Berlin:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bergie/46619220061/

canistel • today at 2:11 AM

As an aside, I see that this blog has been around from early 2000s, and has been regularly updated, almost every day. Quite fascinating...

dtgriscom • today at 12:28 AM

I saw this. It was done by Victorian embroiderers, and was amazing, but the part I remember is one of the incidental characters. In the original, he was quite conspicuously nude; in the reproduction he was given a pair of shorts.

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