It’s amazing, you know.
The extent to which women’s work is undervalued.
Take the Bayeux Tapestry
A stunning piece of work, handmade circa the 11th Century.
The tapestry tells a tale of knights and battles and victories and failings. A tale of kings and their conquests.
What remains? Steel and Armor?
No. Cotton and linen. Threaded and knotted and spliced and faded. It’s stalwart against the greedy hands of time.
Men. They are the ones remembered. Odo and Harold and Hastings probably. A tale of men, created by women. A history where the historians are forgotten.
Not the skills passed down from the old to the young. Not the time and effort and artistry. Not the artist(s) and historians and knowledge makers and holders.
Not the women. They are…overlooked.
But the tapestry remains. And so too does their memory, if you choose to look.
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