Comments on: French Tapestry from Bayeux to Today https://maryannesfrance.com/things-to-do/attractions/french-tapestry-from-bayeux-to-today/ France made simple Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:25:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Mary Anne https://maryannesfrance.com/things-to-do/attractions/french-tapestry-from-bayeux-to-today/#comment-9116 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:25:16 +0000 https://maryannesfrance.com/?p=4063#comment-9116 In reply to Lady C.

Thank you so much. I didn’t know about the Coventry tapestry as I’m not a specialist in tapestries. I imagine that “Erras creation” is a typo for ‘Arras’ which was the centre of tapestry production in the 14/15th centuries. I am sure you know this interesting fact but for those new to tapestry in France: “Arras” came to mean a tapestry that’s hung as a decoration, especially one decorated with complex stitched designs. There’s a famous reference to an arras in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, when Polonius hides in an alcove behind an arras to eavesdrop.

]]> By: Lady C https://maryannesfrance.com/things-to-do/attractions/french-tapestry-from-bayeux-to-today/#comment-9111 Thu, 26 Feb 2026 21:29:05 +0000 https://maryannesfrance.com/?p=4063#comment-9111 Dear creator of this page,
Could you please indulge me …..?
There is a tapastery I think you’d be interested in that perhaps you’ve not heard of or seen. It’s in the St Marys Guild Hall, Coventry. England. I’ll leave you the link here

https://www.stmarysguildhall.co.uk/tapestry/

They have some information, but by no means enough. Please take a look & see what you think. It’s been pretty much in continuous situ., for 500 years (apart from WWII when it was removed before the complete destruction of Coventry in the Blitz. They belueve it was created in Flanders but, I think it’s an Erras creation.

Anyway, thank you for posting this amazing and fascinating.

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