We propose to produce a programme which will combine the genres of drama reconstruction, documentary and historical thriller, in two episodes of either 52 or 60 minutes each.

Rather than adopting the customary route of dramatising key scenes, we will craft archive-footage of the times. By creating vital scenes with great care we can ensure they are historically accurate along with believable camera angles, reconstruction of locations as they were and dramatic witness accounts. After all, the Tapestry itself was a primitive way of executing this before modern technology was available.

We plan to shoot for HDTV using two techniques in parallel: re-enacting scenes of the tapestry that are open to new discoveries and inserting the point of view of historians and academics from the UK, France, Denmark, Canada and the USA.

Comments are brief and concise. We will make sure that their commentaries will not encroach upon the magical combination of images and dramatic actions. Talking heads will be avoided. The narrator will link the scenes and give concise information of new findings, lifting the visuals and not leading them.

The viewer will be kept in suspense. The underlying idea is to investigate mysteries that have been largely ignored and, drawing on the latest research, propose answers which suggest that many pre-conceived ideas should be overturned.

Our ambition is to awaken new interest and revive the splendour of the mysterious and fascinating Middle Ages. We will bring alive the intrigue using the most enigmatic scenes of the “Bayeux Tapestry” in a lavish, and above all, entertaining production.

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Carol Ventura shows how to design tapestry crochet motifs with tapestry crochet graph paper on the PBS TV show, “Creative Living with Sheryl Borden.” Please look at http://www.tapestrycrochet.com for more information.

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Track off the 1990’s Modern English release “Pillow Lips” This song was also heard toward the end of the movie “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitters Dead” starring Christina Applegate.

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Learn how to protect and preserve needlepoint tapestries in this free online video arts and crafts lesson.

Expert: Francie DeMun
Contact: www.arttaos.com/lora/
Bio: Francie DeMun creates original needlepoint tapestries with Scottish wools.

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Andrew Brigeford theories

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Carol Ventura shows how to bead tapestry crochet a basket with a heart motif on the PBS TV show, “Creative Living with Sheryl Borden.” Bead Tapestry Crochet Part 1 introduces the technique and http://www.tapestrycrochet.com has links to the basket pattern and more info about bead tapestry crochet.

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Learn how to use colors to set the mood of needlepoint tapestry artwork in this free online video arts and crafts lesson.

Expert: Francie DeMun
Contact: www.arttaos.com/lora/
Bio: Francie DeMun creates original needlepoint tapestries with Scottish wools.

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Beautiful church in Bayeux, Normandy, France. A town known for the 1,000 year-old tapestry it houses that captures the story of William the Conquerer. Well worth a visit.

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Learn more about the exhibition: http://www.metmuseum.org/special/tapestry/threads_splendor_more.asp

From the Middle Ages until the late eighteenth century, the courts of Europe lavished vast resources on tapestries made of precious materials after designs by the leading artists of the day. This international loan exhibition, conceived as a sequel to “Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence” (spring 2002), is the first comprehensive survey of high-quality seventeenth-century European tapestry. Drawing from collections in more than fifteen countries, it presents some forty rare tapestries made in Brussels, Delft, Florence, London, Munich, Paris, and Rome between 1590 and 1720, along with approximately twenty-five drawings, engravings, and oil sketches. The exhibition investigates the stylistic and technical development of this prestigious figurative medium and explores the contributions of artists such as Peter Paul Rubens, Jacob Jordaens, Simon Vouet, Charles Le Brun, Pietro da Cortona, and Giovanni Romanelli, as they responded to the challenges of the medium in unique and spectacular ways.

Curatorial Talk to staff given by Thomas Campbell, curator, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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