The Bayeux Tapestry, from eleventh-century France, depicts 75 scenes over 250 feet of fabric. It was likely produced by workers embroidering in sections and then joining the resulting panels together. It’s plausible that the workshop that produced the tapestry had never produced one so large, and some researchers claim that a close examination of the joins—the places where the panels are stitched together—suggests that the workers developed and refined their completed (joining process over the course of)/(exhibits a clear misalignment of the) (production. For example, the first join the workers)/(borders of the two panels, whereas the later joins) are virtually invisible. Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
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