Experience: I’m making a lifesize replica of the Bayeux tapestry

It’s been eight years since I started, and I’m now 44 metres in. It’s taken its tollI first set eyes on the Bayeux tapestry thanks to a wrong turn. My husband was driving us across France, missed an exit, and we accidentally ended up in the town of Bayeux.I live in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, but having grown up in Sweden, I’d only been vaguely aware of the tapestry. I knew 1066 was a significant date for the English, but history lessons had bored me at school. I’d alw