continuous narrative

A method of visual storytelling in which multiple episodes are depicted sequentially without being divided by frames into separate scenes.

The Bayeux Tapestry (detail). Linen embroidered with woolen yarns. Ca. 1077 CE. Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux, Bayeux, France.

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