Fashion: Temperature: Heating
Bayeux Scarf   (+21, -2)  [vote for, against]

Depicting scenes from the famous French victory over the English, this 10%-sized wool reproduction of the Bayeux tapestry is a beautiful accessory for a cold winters morning.

Keep warm and informed this winter.
-- jonthegeologist, Nov 16 2005

The Original Bayeux Tapestry http://hastings1066.com/
[jonthegeologist, Nov 16 2005]

Plains Indian Art http://www.tribalarts.com/feature/plains/
...much of whcih bears a striking resemblance to the Bayeux Tapestry. Could be used for the American version. [DrCurry, Nov 19 2005]

Comes complete with a insulated eye patch.
-- skinflaps, Nov 16 2005


coming soon - the Shroud of Turin T-shirt
-- po, Nov 16 2005


//famous French victory over the English// Famous only for its uniqueness.
[Goes off to imagine a scarf 7metres long, but only 5cm wide...]
-- coprocephalous, Nov 16 2005


Come to think about this, I certainly wouldn't wear this.Give me a scarf depicting the battle of Waterloo that I may wear.
-- skinflaps, Nov 16 2005


Recreate the whole thing in cartoon format with several rows of panels, and you can fit it onto a scarf 2m long by, say, 20cm wide? Surpised Past Times haven't rushed this out to their shops already.
-- moomintroll, Nov 16 2005


ties n scarves are quite different. Nice link though [murdoch]

[copro] 5cm wide means you can wrap it round lots and lots of times to use up the full 7m length. Any wider and it just wouldn't work so well.
-- jonthegeologist, Nov 16 2005


But shouldn't it be a tapestry, not wool, or at least cross-stitch or something?
-- DrCurry, Nov 16 2005


... and created by nimble-fingered french women too.
-- jonthegeologist, Nov 16 2005


[Ian] - What?
-- wagster, Nov 17 2005


gawd, the suspense is killing me...
-- po, Nov 17 2005


[Ian], we're all ready and waiting ...
-- jonthegeologist, Nov 18 2005


Put your glad-rags on? Or is it the reference to Halley's Comet on the Tapestry?
-- coprocephalous, Nov 18 2005


hey Copro! that's smart.
-- po, Nov 18 2005


[po] category corrected.
-- jonthegeologist, Nov 18 2005


//hey Copro! that's smart// My new jacket? Thank you - glad you like it.
-- coprocephalous, Nov 18 2005


Now, when I was just a little boy,
Standin’ to my daddy’s knee,
My poppa said, son, don’t let the man get you
Do what he done to me...

-- wagster, Nov 18 2005


This scarf would go well with my Damien Hurst "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" shark shaped shoes...
-- Minimal, Nov 18 2005


[IT] ditto (except it was a rather lovely autumn day) - easily one of the best historical attractions in France. The rest of the exhibition (IMHO) really sets the scene and tells the story, and then to *see* something that is the best part of a millennium old is pretty mind-blowing.
-- coprocephalous, Nov 18 2005


It'd make expensive wallpaper.
-- wagster, Nov 18 2005


Tragically, I don't think it would sell well here in America. My suggestion would be to change it to '1980 Winter Olymipc Hockey' scarf for sales in the USA.
-- sleeka, Nov 18 2005


Actually, I was thinking those Indian story cloths (quite forgotten what they're properly called).
-- DrCurry, Nov 19 2005



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