Dr David Musgrove said the 230-foot long artefact was most likely woven in Kent rather than France and was created using an embroidery technique, meaning it is not a tapestry.

Dr David Musgrove said the 230-foot long artefact was most likely woven in Kent rather than France and was created using an embroidery technique, meaning it is not a tapestry.

The Bayeux Tapestry should be renamed the “Canterbury Embroidery” because it was almost certainly made in Britain and is not technically a tapestry, a historian has revealed.