Blame it on the builders

The latest theory about the Canterbury Embroidery is that it was created to be displayed in a new refectory that was due to be added to St. Augustin’s Abbey.
    But the refectory took 50 years to build and the embroidery, which had been put in a box and stashed somewhere, had been forgotten about when the building work was completed in the middle of the 12th century.
    And it remained in its box until the 15th century, when it was rediscovered and moved to Bayeux in Normandy to become a tapestry.