Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum: An extraordinary masterpiece showing pity and brutality of war

Golly, it’s big. Before you get close up to the Bayeux Tapestry, you can look down on it from an upper balcony and see all seventy yards of it under glass. Close up what strikes you is something different…it’s that the pictures and the story are made up of stitches. It sounds obvious but what reprod