• Normans: Plant Dyes & the Bayeux Tapestry

• Location: Lifelab
• Duration: 1 hour
• Availability: On demand from 19th April 2010
• Age Ranges(s): Upper KS2
• Minimum Number: 12
• Maximum Number: 36

How did the Normans get the coloured thread for the Bayeux Tapestry? Become a forensic botanist and discover what plant dyes could have been used and then try them out in the lab to dye your own thread.