‘What would you have me paint instead of a battle Madame?'<br>GeneviEve de Nanterre's eyes gleamed.<br>‘A unicorn.'<br><br>Keen to demonstrate his new-found favour with the King rising nobleman Jean le Viste commissions six tapestries to adorn the walls of his chAteau. He expects soldiers and bloody battlefields. But artist Nicolas des Innocents instead designs a seductive world of women unicorns and flowers using as his muses Le Viste's wife GeneviEve and ripe young daughter Claude.<br>In Belgium as his designs spring to life under the weavers' fingers Nicolas is inspired once more - by the master weaver's daughter AliEnor and her mother Christine. They too will be captured by his threads.<br><br>“Enormously enjoyable.” EVENING STANDARD<br><br>“Charming.” THE TIMES