Reader corrects: Bayeux Tapestry creators were Anglo-Saxon women skilled in Opus Anglicanum
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Guardian staff reporter
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A reader's letter responding to Jonathan Jones' article on medieval art, correcting and expanding on the history of the Bayeux Tapestry. The letter argues that the tapestry was created by Anglo-Saxon women in Kent who were skilled in Opus Anglicanum (English work) — a style of embroidery renowned across Europe before 1066 — and that these women were likely forced by Odo of Bayeux to create it after their husbands may have died at the Battle of Hastings.
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bskyReader corrects: Bayeux Tapestry creators were Anglo-Saxon women skilled in Opus Anglicanumtheguardian.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledThese women were almost certainly Anglo-Saxon, and their husbands may well have died at Hastings.
The quality of this English embroidery was widely known across Europe before 1066 and it was often called Opus Anglicanum – English work.
The creators of the Bayeux tapestry were probably forced by Odo of Bayeux to create it
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