A determined history buff spent more than 10,000 hours over 18 years hand sewing a tapestry longer than a tennis court. Andy Wilkinson, 51, had no sewing or drawing experience when he started the 40ft ...

Kent Andy Wilkinson, 51, had no sewing or drawing experience when he started the 40 feet long version of the Bayeux Tapestry, a 1,000-year-old embroidery of events leading up to the Norman conquest of ...

A University of Manchester researcher has thrown new light on how the world famous Bayeux Tapestry was made over 900 years ago. Alex Makin –a professional embroiderer who was trained at one the ...

BAYEUX, France (AP) — Famously, Arya Stark always preferred her sword Needle to needlework. Still, even she would be impressed with the giant tapestry now on show in France that recounts the plot of ...

Paris (AFP) – French President Emmanuel Macron's promise to loan the Bayeux Tapestry to the United Kingdom in a diplomatic gesture has caused an outcry in the French art world given the ancient fabric ...

The artwork, measuring 27ft 10in by 18ft 10in, is the 12th of 13 pieces to be restored in a project that began all the way back in 2001. The tapestries are among the oldest surviving in Britain and ...

The world's largest tapestry is to be move from its home in Devon to a museum in Bristol. The 267-feet-long New World Tapestry, which depicts the colonisation of the Americas between 1583 and 1648, ...

Famously, Arya Stark always preferred her sword Needle to needlework. Still, even she would be impressed with the giant tapestry now on show in France that recounts the plot of "Game of Thrones" in ...