The lady and the unicorn (2003)

A commission for six tapestries travels from a patron's wishes through a painter's design to the skill of Brussels weavers. That chain makes authorship a practical question: the finished thing depends on people whose contributions are easy to overlook. Chevalier keeps attraction and household power close to the work of turning an image into cloth. Read it for the friction between an artist's conception and what other hands must actually make.