The "La Dame à la licorne" is a tapestry consisting of six pieces, woven from wool and silk with the thousand-and-one flowers technique (mille-fleur). Five of these six scenes drawn in Paris in the 1500s represent the five senses. One scene is left vague, which is thought to tell the story of love.
This scene called "La Vue" that we see on the stamp represents the sense of sight, the image of the unicorn reflected in the mirror in the young woman's hand gives us its message with the horse's vision of itself in the mirror. These six tapestries are presently exhibited at the Cluny Museum in Paris.
Source: Pul Magazine
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