The women – a team of highly trained embroiderers – would have required a good deal of space and resources to create it. The first two sections of the tapestry run to nearly 14 metres – and handling this amount of linen simultaneously is a complicated process. From analysis of the different hands at work on the Bayeux Tapestry it seems that the women worked alongside one another in close proximity, some helping to keep in place the individual sections while others embroidered, with the remaining linen collected together or held on a roller.
