<P> There are a number of replicas of the Bayeux Tapestry in existence . Through the collaboration of William Morris with textile manufacturer Thomas Wardle, Wardle's wife Elizabeth, who was an accomplished seamstress, embarked on creating a reproduction in 1885 . She organised some 37 women in her Leek School of Art Embroidery to collaborate working from a full - scale water - colour facsimile drawing provided by the South Kensington Museum . The full - size replica was finished in 1886 and is now exhibited in the Museum of Reading in Reading, Berkshire, England . The naked figure in the original tapestry (in the border below the Ælfgyva figure) is depicted wearing a brief garment because the drawing which was worked from was similarly bowdlerised . </P> <P> Ray Dugan of University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, completed a stitched replica in 1996 . Since its completion, it has been displayed in various museums and galleries in Canada and the United States . </P> <P> In 2000, the Danish - based Bayeux Group, part of the Viking Group Lindholm Høje, began making an accurate replica of the Bayeux Tapestry, using the original sewing techniques . The replica was completed in June 2014 and went on permanent exhibition at Børglum Abbey in May 2015 . </P> <P> Dr. E.D. Wheeler, former judge and former dean at Oglethorpe University, commissioned a hand - painted, full - size replica of the Bayeux Tapestry and donated it to the University of West Georgia in Carrollton in 1994 . In 2014, the replica was acquired by the University of North Georgia in Dahlonega . </P>

Who ordered the bayeux tapestry to be made