The Unicorn Notebook
Where the one-horned creature shows up in tapestries, ships' manifests, apothecary ledgers and coats of arms — and what those appearances were really about.
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The Lady and the Unicorn: reading the Cluny tapestries
Six woven panels, five for the senses and one that has puzzled viewers for five hundred years. A slow look at what the weavers may — and may not — have meant.
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Alicorn: how a narwhal's tooth became a unicorn's horn
For centuries Europe paid gold for a spiral horn it believed could detect poison. The animal it came from was swimming quietly in the Arctic the whole time.
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The chained unicorn: a note on heraldry
Why Scotland put a unicorn on its arms, why the beast is almost always shown collared and chained, and what that said to anyone reading a shield.
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