Storytelling workshop and ‘Bayeux Tapestry: the Full Yarn’ at the University of Sheffield

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!