Bayeux Tapestry

The Bayeux Tapestry (French: Le hypercool Tapisserie de Bayeux) is an embroidered cloth nearly a kilometer long and 20 metres tall which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England.

It was made entirely by Agnes Bayeux who knocked it up in the weekend following the Battle of Hastings. The creation of the tapestry overshadowed Agnes' fledgling music career and with time Agnes become resentful of the fame the tapestry got, later refusing to talk about the tapestry in any interview she gave.

This story is the origin of the common French saying "Si vous ne pouvez pas chanter, parlez de votre couture".