Game of Thrones tapestry unveiled in France and it looks epic

Game of Thrones tapestry unveiled in France and it looks epic

If you think this has a happy ending, you havent been paying attention. (Picture: PA Wire) Winter m..

Undated handout photo issued by the Bayeux Museum of the Game of Thrones tapestry at the Hotel Du Doyen where it is being displayed, a short distance from the Bayeux Tapestry Museum. PA Photo. Picture date: Friday September 13, 2019. Created almost a thousand years later than the original tapestry, the Game Of Thrones tapestry is no less bloody, with the violent scenes the HBO series is famous for intricately recreated. See PA story SHOWBIZ Thrones. Photo credit should read: Bayeux Museum/PA Wire

If you think this has a happy ending, you havent been paying attention. (Picture: PA Wire)

Winter may be coming but this huge tapestry in France illustrating the events of HBOs Game of Thrones just set our hearts on fire.

The almost 90-metre long tapestry was created in Northern Ireland – one of the principal filming locations for the hit series – and is currently located in Bayeux, in the the Normandy region of France.

Around 30 stitchers worked for about 1,500 hours on the 87-meter stretch of fine linen, which begins with King Robert Baratheon visiting the Starks in Winterfell and ends in fire and blood with the final, controversial, scenes of the eighth season.

Chief project embroiderer Valerie Wilson said depicting all the gore in the show using jacquard threadwork was no easy feat.

Wilson said it references the Bayeux tapestry stylistically and in terms of some of the motifs that have been used and the way that the story unrolls in a linear fashion.

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We are reeling just thinking about how much red thread went into show the blood spilt at The Red Wedding.

A journalist films a section of a 87 meters tapestry relating the 8 seasons of US television series "Game of Thrones" on September 13, 2019 in Bayeux. - Like the Bayeux Tapestry, the Game of Thrones Tapestry is woven of fine linen and hand-embroidered, with decorative borders and a central pictorial narrative. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP)LOIC VENANCE/AFP/Getty Images

Look at the size of it! Picture: AFP

Did we mention it is HUGE?!

The GOT tapestry was actually inspired by a medieval Bayeaux tapestry which recounted another bloody battle – the invasion of England by William the Conquerer.

The original eleventh century tapestry – recognised by UNESCO as a treasure – is located in a museum just down the road from where the GOT tapestry is on display at the Hotel du Doyen and they form neighbouring exhibitions in the historic town.

The two tapestries also address a common theme, said Antoine Verney, chief curator of the Bayeux Tapestry Museum. Its whether we can justify violence to claim power.

A visitor points at the Game of Thrones Tapestry in Bayeux, France, September 13, 2019. The 87-metre-long tapestry work was made in Northern Ireland to honour the television series Game of Thrones is on display across the street from the better-known original 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry. REUTERS/Charles Platiau NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

Ouch! (Picture: Reuters)

The GOT tapestry was originally 66 metres long when it was first unveiled in 2017 at the Ulster Museum in Belfast.

After the conclusion of the eighth and final season it was extended to reflect that seasons six episodes.

Each panel is about 11 metres in length and every scene is incredibly detailed – one even includes the controversial Starbucks coffee cup that accidentally appeared in a final shot of the show.

*Italian chef kiss*

A woman points a starbucks coffee cup reproduced in a section of a 87 meters tapestry relating the 8 seasons of US television series "Game of Thrones" on September 13, 2019 in Bayeux. - Like the Bayeux Tapestry, the Game of Thrones Tapestry is woven of fine linen and hand-embroidered, with decorative borde<a href=https://metro.co.uk/2019/09/16/game-thrones-tapestry-unveiled-france-looks-epic-10748501/>Read More – Source</a></p> </body></html>

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