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  • Medieval Mosaic

    This is the world’s biggest sweater. It was a bit big for Matt. image

    This is the world’s largest recreation of the Bayeux Tapestry

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    Made out of 2 million pieces of steel broken off of old weaving machine cogs, painstakingly arranged to form a grid, attached together with masking tape, with the gaps filled in with shoe polish, and the pattern painted on top.

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    We know it is the world’s largest recreation of the tapestry, because he wasn’t satisfied with just recreating the tapestry, and had to add large sections to complete the story.

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    Underneath all of that, there are a series of puzzles hidden in the pattern of gold and silver tiles underneath the images.

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    In the half hour Matt gave her, Kerri failed to find even the first clue. 🙁

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