# How to make a tapestry from your group chat URL: https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/how-to/make-a-group-chat-tapestry/ Updated: 2026-10-23 The Bayeux Tapestry is nearly 70 metres of people arguing, falling off horses and pointing at a comet. Your group chat has the same energy. **Short answer:** Paste a stretch of the chat, let it pick the most chaotic moment, and that moment comes back as a scene in the style of the Bayeux Tapestry with a Latin caption and an English translation. Group Chat Tapestry prints it as a 36 x 26 in or 62 x 50 in wall tapestry, or a 60 x 50 in throw blanket. ## What to paste Copy the part of the chat where it all went wrong, plus a bit either side for context. [Group Chat Tapestry](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/tapestry/) reads up to about 6,000 characters, which is a long evening of messages but not a year of them. A WhatsApp export works, including the ones where senders show up as phone numbers. It looks for the single most chaotic moment, gives it a chaos score out of 100, and shows you the runners-up in case it picked the wrong fight. The moment it picks gets a title like a museum placard: The Burning of Dave's Gazebo. ## What gets scrubbed before the AI sees it Before the AI sees the chat, the site strips out phone numbers, emails, links and website names, @handles, card numbers, street addresses and postcodes, and turns full names in speaker labels ("Dana Whitfield:") into first names. It tells you how many things it scrubbed. The chat is read once and never stored or logged, and real names never reach the image. One thing it can't catch: a surname typed inside a message. If someone wrote their own full name mid-argument, trim that line out first. ## What actually prints All the text is editable. The Latin accepts capitals, digits and light punctuation only, and anything else gets folded to fit, so accents come off and long dashes become dots. - **The scene**, stitched-looking figures in the Bayeux style, with no text in the picture itself. - **A Latin band** in capitals, with the little raised dot (ยท) the original uses between phrases. Something like HIC DAVID GAZEBO INCENDIT. - **An English translation** underneath, if you want it. - **The placard**: title, year and chaos score. ## It looks stitched, but it's printed Worth knowing before you hang it: the stitches are part of the picture. The design is printed onto the fabric at 150 DPI (the wall tapestry and the fleece throw both use sublimation, where the ink goes into the fibres), so it's flat and soft rather than raised. ## The same chat, other ways Two other sites start from a pasted chat too, and scrub it the same way. - [The Illuminated Manuscript](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/manuscript/): the moment written out by a monk, with a strip of margin doodles at the bottom. The scribe drafts it three ways (Latin, Olde English and plain English) and you pick the one that prints. Poster or canvas. - [The Frieze](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/frieze/): the incident painted as black figures on a Greek vase, with everyone's names in Greek letters. On a mug, a tumbler, a tee or wrapping paper. ## Questions people ask ### Is a group chat tapestry actually embroidered? No. It's printed to look like embroidery, which keeps it soft, flat and big enough for a wall. ### Is my group chat stored anywhere? No. Phone numbers, emails, links, handles, card numbers and addresses are scrubbed before the AI sees it, it's read once to find the moment, and it isn't stored or logged. ### Can I change the Latin? Yes. You can edit the Latin, the translation, the title and the year. The Latin is limited to capitals, digits and light punctuation so it prints in the tapestry lettering. ### What sizes does it come in? A 36 x 26 in or 62 x 50 in wall tapestry, or a 60 x 50 in fleece throw blanket. ## Or just make one - [Group Chat Tapestry](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/tapestry/): The worst moment in your group chat, woven like the Bayeux Tapestry. - [The Illuminated Manuscript](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/manuscript/): Your group chat written out by a monk, with snails in the margins. - [The Frieze](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/frieze/): Your group chat painted on a Greek vase.