‘The Bayeux Tapestry: The Full Yarn’ and Contra at Sidmouth Folk Festival
July 31 - August 7
At Sidmouth this year I will be:
- Storytelling The Bayeux Tapestry: The Full Yarn (Saturday, 7-8, All Saints)
- calling for the Wednesday night contra with Stomping Ground
- helping run morning workshops for the children’s festival with Boggarts Breakfast
The Bayeux Tapestry: The Full Yarn
The beasts of battle gather in the tapestry borders.
Ravens, wolves, eagles. All creatures – common, fantastic, wild, domestic –
hold their stitched breath
as the battle gathers
Waiting.
Until at last, William and Harold face each other over some few feet of linen.
The embroidered King wants to finish his church at Westminster. The English Earl and Norman Duke want the English throne. The hawk wants to be out in the fields, hunting for mice.
Daisy Black provides a hawk’s eye view of the Bayeux Tapestry, where kings battle, oaths are broken and wheels of cheese are stolen by crafty foxes.
Seventy metres of history in a single hour!