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Volume 077-2 - April 2023 (8 pages)
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The San Juan Ridge
Tapestry Project
A Story to Last a
Thousand Years
As told by Marsha Stone to Linda K. Jack
ed The Bookseller on Mill Street in Grass
Valley. While browsing in the art section
a book about the Bayeux Tapestry caught her
eye. A masterpiece of 11th century Medieval
art, the Bayeux Tapestry is a pictorial embroidered cloth that depicts the events leading up
to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.
It tells the story of the invasion of England by
William, Duke of Normandy, which culminated in William’s victory over the English king,
Harold II, at the Battle of Hastings. The Tapestry shows in detail William’s army crossing
the sea in longships, cavalcades of soldiers
on horseback, and scenes of battle. Plants,
animals, and fantastical creatures populate
the margins across nine panels of linen cloth
joined together to collectively measure about
210 feet long and 17 inches wide.
. : the summer of 2005 Marsha Stone visitAs a textile artist with experience spinning,
weaving, and dyeing, Marsha marveled that
The Bayeux Tapestry, photo courtesy of Wikipedia Commons
‘Nevada County Historical society
Bulletin
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this nearly one thousand-year-old tapestry was
still telling its story to 21st century readers
such as herself, and to visitors to the Musée de
la Tapisserie de Bayeux in Normandy, France,
where the tapestry is viewed each year by
thousands of people from around the world.!
As a longtime resident on the San Juan Ridge,
Marsha had been searching for months for a
way to fulfil her dream of honoring her local
community. She recalled her reaction to viewing the book’s illustrations: “On the cover was
an image of William of Normandy’s army in
boats crossing the sea to invade England. I
could see each individual stitch of embroidery. I knew we could do this. We would stitch
stories of the re-inhabitation of the Ridge, not
of an invading army.” Since the Bayeux Tapestry had survived mostly intact for a thousand
years, Marsha and the volunteers she recruited
formed an ambitious plan to make a tapestry
' See https://www.bayeuxmuseum.com/la-tapisseriede-bayeux/