The Rhodesian tapestry is a series of embroidered panels that depict various elements of Rhodesian (Zimbabwean) history. The original plans for the tapestry date back to 1946, when Lady Kate Tait, wife of the then (ex-) Governor of Southern Rhodesia, Sir Campbell Tait, suggested that an embroidery should be made that depicted the “cardinal events in Rhodesian history on the lines of the Bayeux Tapestry” (Ransford 1971:4).