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The D-day Embroidery

July 2024
1min read


A few years back an English nobleman got the idea that that the 1944 invasion of France should be commemorated in the same way the last successful crossChannel invasion (in 1066) was: with a tapestry. The complex, colorful result is both good sewing and good history.

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