History
lUnfortunately, however, the current mode of display denies audiences what was most certainly the original spatial context of the Tapestry, where viewers would have been surrounded on all sides by the work -- a context that emphasizes both the monumental impact of the work and William's achievement, as well as the Tapestry's own prototypical hypertextual format which allows thematic connections to be made simultaneously across the space of display” (Foys).