Bayeux Tapestry
One of the most famous embroideries (it is not a tapestry) of the Medieval period is the "Bayeux Tapestry", which was embroidered with wool on nine linen panels and is 230 feet long. Its c. seventy scenes narrate the Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest of England. The Bayeux Tapestry may have been created in either a commercial workshop by a royal or an aristocratic lady and her retinue, or in a workshop in a nunnery. Sylvette Lemagnen, conservator of the tapestry, in her 2005 book "La Tapisserie de Bayeux" states: