Worcester News reports (via Medieval Material Culture Blog):
EXTREMELY rare fragments of Anglo Saxon embroidery from Worcester, nearly 1,000 years old and hidden away for decades, are currently being painstakingly restored and conserved by specialists.
The exquisite fragments are the only surviving pieces from the same period as the famous Bayeux Tapestry in France and are among the very earliest examples of English embroidery.
And tantalising too, is the real possibility that they may have been part of vestments which belonged to St Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester from 1062 until 1095. The 1,000th anniversary of his birth is being celebrated this year.
St. Wulfstan was the only Anglo-Saxon bishop to keep his see after the Norman Conquest. (He's not the Wulfstan who wrote Sermo Lupi ad Anglos.)
Look! It's the Shroud of Wulfstan!
Posted by: MC | October 12, 2008 at 12:04 AM