![]() ![]() Jean le Viste, a newly wealthy member of the French court, commissions the tapestries to hang in his chateau. Like the many strands of wool and silk woven together into one cloth, so these people came together in a complex dance to create the whole picture. Weavers, patrons, designers, artists, merchants and apprentices were involved in their making, and behind them were the wives, daughters and servants who exercised influences over their men. Tapestries give an appearance of order and continuity, as if designed and made by one person, belying the complicated process required to create them. Beautiful, intricate and expertly made, they are also mysterious in their origin and meaning. The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries are a set of six medieval tapestries. The new novel from the author of the much-loved Girl with a Pearl Earring and Falling Angels. ![]()
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