Once the decor of royalty, tapestries have evolved to bring sophistication and style to today's homes.

The unicorn is indeed the national animal of Scotland, per its official government designations. As such, we rate this claim ...

Our Call: In the grand forest of cinema, Death of a Unicorn is less like a rare creature worthy of awe, more like your run-of-the-mill shrugworthy squirrel. SKIP IT.

Ridley's story has the laborious task of carrying most of the exposition as the sullen collegiate finds the medieval Unicorn Tapestries, which explain that only a maiden of honest heart can tame ...

“The Unicorn Rests in a Garden,” from the Unicorn Tapestries (1495–1505). Photo courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Some quick internet research sees her look into the famed unicorn tapestries hanging at the Cloisters museum in New York, which hints that these beasts aren’t quite as benevolent as you might think.

The unicorn was also associated with themes of Christianity in artwork throughout the ages. Around 1500, another seminal work of the western art cannon was woven: The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries.

One of the Unicorn Tapestries featured in "Death of a Unicorn." Credit: A24 There are three unicorns in the film: Elliot and Ridley's victim is the foal, while its parents, the mare and the ...

Exclusive: Alex Scharfman unpacks each of the real-life “Unicorn Tapestries” and how they inspired the look, story, characterizations, and even ending of Death of a Unicorn.

If you go deeper, there were a lot of different associations with them, so that really informed a lot of the creature design." One of the Unicorn Tapestries featured in "Death of a Unicorn ...