{"id":80305,"date":"2022-02-16T17:07:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T11:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/bayeux-tapestry-replica-challenge-giving-grey-hairs-to-primary-school-teacher\/"},"modified":"2022-02-16T17:07:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T11:37:58","slug":"bayeux-tapestry-replica-challenge-giving-grey-hairs-to-primary-school-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/bayeux-tapestry-replica-challenge-giving-grey-hairs-to-primary-school-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayeux Tapestry replica challenge giving grey hairs to primary school teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A trained primary school teacher said that copying mistakes in the Bayeux Tapestry is going to \u201cturn her hair grey\u201d, almost six years into a project to stitch a full-size replica of the medieval original.<\/p>\n

Mia Hansson said she passed the halfway mark in January of this year, having crafted 34.2 metres (112 feet) of the 68.38 metre (224 feet) artwork.<\/p>\n

The 47-year-old works on the tapestry \u201ccurled up on my sofa\u201d at home in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, and can spend up to 10 hours per day on it.<\/p>\n

The Bayeux Tapestry tells the story of the Norman Conquest in 1066.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you go and view the Bayeux Tapestry you\u2019re going to see it as a whole, but I have to dissect every single inch of it to recreate it, to draw it correctly,\u201d said Miss Hansson.<\/p>\n

\"MiaMia Hansson, 47, of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, with some of her full-size replica of the Bayeux Tapestry, which she is more than halfway through making (Joe Giddens\/PA)<\/small><\/small><\/p>\n

\u201cI find all the little details that are wrong that they did wrong from the very start and probably thought \u2018doesn\u2019t matter, nobody\u2019s going to notice\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I did, 960 years later.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat hand that\u2019s turned the wrong way around, one bloke, he\u2019s got two right hands, no-one\u2019s going to notice which side his thumb is \u2013 I did.<\/p>\n

\"MissMiss Hansson started to sew the replica in 2016, which will be 68.38 metres long (224 feet) when complete (Joe Giddens\/PA)<\/small><\/small><\/p>\n

\u201cThey did a job and they did a marvellous job.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho am I to correct their work.<\/p>\n

\u201cI honour what they\u2019ve done, mistakes and all.<\/p>\n

\"MissMiss Hansson works on the replica tapestry while curled up on her sofa, and can spend up to 10 hours per day on it (Joe Giddens\/PA)<\/small><\/small><\/p>\n

\u201cBut I\u2019m a trained primary school teacher \u2013 correcting mistakes is what I do.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is going to turn my hair grey.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m working on a piece now where the back leg of a horse is just simply wrong, there\u2019s everything wrong about it and I have to copy that and it\u2019s doing my head in.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will copy it as that\u2019s what they did and that\u2019s what I\u2019ll do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"MissMiss Hansson said she has noticed mistakes in the original Bayeux Tapestry and copies them in her replica to \u2018honour what they\u2019ve done\u2019 (Joe Giddens\/PA)<\/small><\/small><\/p>\n

Miss Hansson started work on the replica in July 2016 and had hoped to finish within 10 years.<\/p>\n

She said she fell behind schedule after first buying a puppy and later embarking on a home renovation project, adding: \u201cAll going well I\u2019ll come in at 11 years rather than 10.\u201d<\/p>\n

The full-time carer for her disabled stepson said that she started sewing aged \u201cfour or five\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy nan taught me cross stitch basically to keep me quiet and stop being naughty,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\"CloseClose up detail of Mia Hansson\u2019s full-size replica of the Bayeux Tapestry in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, which has so far taken her almost six years to stitch (Joe Giddens\/PA)<\/small><\/small><\/p>\n

She started sewing Viking re-enactment clothes in 2001, \u201cyou can\u2019t go and buy those clothes in H&M\u201d, and \u201cbecame quite good at it\u201d, getting orders from \u201cfriends and family, museums and schools\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cSix years ago I didn\u2019t have any orders coming in,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got bored trying to think \u2018what can I make next\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I thought I need a project I can\u2019t finish in a hurry.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"MissMiss Hansson believes her replica will be the first to be made by one individual, rather than a group of people, in Europe (Joe Giddens\/PA)<\/small><\/small><\/p>\n

She said she heard of someone making a half-size replica of the Bayeux Tapestry and decided to do a full-size one herself.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause what\u2019s the point of doing it half-size?<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it\u2019s a big project you might as well do all of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TheThe trained primary school teacher said she may sell her finished replica Bayeux Tapestry once it is finished (Joe Giddens\/PA)<\/small><\/small><\/p>\n

She said that a man in Canada had previously made a full-size replica but she believes hers will be the first made by one person in Europe, rather than by a group of people.<\/p>\n

Miss Hansson said she may sell the replica once it is completed, adding: \u201cIt\u2019s not going to go cheap, obviously.\u201d<\/p>\n

She will display the unfinished replica tapestry at St Peter\u2019s Church Hall in Wisbech on April 12.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A trained primary school teacher said that copying mistakes in the Bayeux Tapestry is going to \u201cturn her hair grey\u201d, almost six years into a project to stitch a full-size replica of the medieval original. Mia Hansson said she passed the halfway mark in January of this year, having crafted 34.2 metres (112 feet) of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":80306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Bayeux-Tapestry-replica-challenge-giving-grey-hairs-to-primary-school.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}