How Did the Bayeux Tapestry Survive for a Thousand Years?

 

We still don’t know (and it’s unlikely we ever will) who ordered the Bayeux Tapestry to be made and who made it, but we do know that it is unlikely it was made in Bayeux.  The most likely place for its creation is Canterbury, and historians believe that the person who funded it was Bishop Odo, the half-brother of the new King of England, William the Conqueror.  Whatever and whoever, it is remarkable that this piece of stitching has survived for the best part of a millennium.  What was needed in order for it to survive so long?

This wonderful animation from The British Museum may not have all the facts, lost as they are to history, but its guesswork is informed by centuries of research and the answers you have here are probably correct.  So if you want to know where the tapestry has been all this time, why it has been moved and where it ended up, then  watch the video below.