Your photo stitched like the Bayeux Tapestry
The Bayeux Tapestry is in fact an embroidery: wool thread on linen, worked in the 1070s. Erafy stitches a new strip of it with you on it.
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What the Bayeux Tapestry is
The Bayeux Tapestry is not a tapestry but an embroidery: ten shades of woollen yarn stitched onto nine joined panels of linen, some seventy metres long and half a metre high. It was probably made in England in the 1070s and is kept at Bayeux, in Normandy.
Two stitches make the whole picture. Outlines and faces are stem stitch, a single corded line of wool. Every filled shape is laid-and-couched work: long threads laid side by side and tied down by a crossing thread, so each patch of colour is ribbed. The linen is left bare behind everything. A horse may be blue with green legs, since colour is there to tell shapes apart. A face is bare linen inside a stitched outline, about five lines.
Erafy works you into a strip of this kind: flat outlined shapes in faded wools on yellowed linen, small beasts in the narrow bands along the top and bottom. A stitch barely holds a person, so expect a figure of your kind, hair as a solid stitched mass, clothes in two or three contrasting wools, rather than a face. With Situation on, you might be spinning wool at a hall door or dancing in a ring on the green.
Erafy's twenty crafts, with their dates, are on the crafts page.
More pictures
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A round dance -
A couple -
A hedgehog as a person
Other crafts: Panel, silk and thread
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Fayum mummy portraitAD 150 -
Tang court paintingAD 750 -
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Questions
Why is the Bayeux Tapestry called a tapestry?
By long habit. It is an embroidery: wool stitched onto nine joined panels of finished linen, using two stitches, stem stitch for outlines and lettering and laid-and-couched work for filling. The name has stuck anyway.
How long is the Bayeux Tapestry?
About seventy metres, and about fifty centimetres high, in one continuous strip with no page breaks. The story runs left to right, and a change of place is marked by a tree or a building rather than a frame. Along it are 623 human figures, 202 horses, 41 ships and 37 buildings, with Latin captions stitched along the top.
What would I look like in the Bayeux Tapestry?
Erafy makes a new picture from your photo in the style of the year you pick, so how much it resembles you varies from one go to the next. It varies most in the black-and-white years and in the crafts before 1900, where faces are drawn in the craft's style. We make no promise about how any result will look.
