The oldest example known of this collaboration appears with this famous
Tapisserie de Bayeux
or also said Queen Matilda's Tapestry which work we ignores who had the idea, may be Bishop Odo commissioned the Tapestry, who conceived it in its spirit , who set up the general form, who drew it and chosen the matters and colors. Finally how much of stitcher have participated in its realization.

That the drawing or the colors either are the choice of the stitcher or the "cartonnier" does not appear clearly in the finished tapestry.

Although one attributes these "tapestries" to the flemish Queen Mathilde  married to Guillaume the conqueror (1054) and so duchess of Normandie, one does not know if she was the partner master, the creator or the worker or all the three. Again, the british and french specialists argue still to assert if that "tapestry" was made in France or in England.

Bayeux Tapestry  (70m length by 0.50m high).

In the elaboration of these works the designer and the producer are so intimately linked that one can rarely know if they are distinct or confused. The stitching keep all the fascination and leaves all the other work upstream. So the stitcher appears as the mother of the work, whose is delivered the beauty. She feeds step by step all the virtualities and hidden potentialities which will appear and will dazzle only to the term of her work.