In the region of Touraine, a castle that has been home to three weavers for six decades is preparing to welcome the public. Hauteclaire Castle, an unusual building with seventeen rooms built between the 14th and 15th centuries, has been the base of the Martinerie workshop, founded by Pat Gaillard (1929–2008), Michèle Bourron (1935–2024), and Jacqueline Hureau (born in 1935). Their artistic output, described as imaginative and surreal, blends medieval illuminated manuscripts with themes from modern science fiction films. Near the fireplace, one might find video cassettes of Dune (David Lynch, 1984), Gattaca (Andrew Niccol, 1997), War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg, 2005), and The Martian (Ridley Scott, 2015). The three women chose to live without husbands or children in the castle to create extraordinary tapestries inspired by dreams and visions. The restoration of the site is urgent, and the castle is expected to fully open to the public by 2030. Ségolène Girard, a conservator-restorer in her thirties, has taken on the mission of reviving the site. She met the weavers through her grandmother and has lived at the castle for a year, working to restore the entire site. Girard has become the president-founder of the Martinerie fund, which aims to inventory the hundreds of works kept there, raise funds, manage the opening to the public, and implement a project for an exhibition center 900 meters from the castle, which will serve as a "base of operations" starting in 2027. The castle is already beginning to attract visitors, with some enthusiasts participating in weaving workshops and artists such as illustrator Laurine Kotte being welcomed for residencies. On October 17, the castle will open its doors to 700 curious visitors as part of the Ar(t]chipel festival. The three weavers met in the 1950s at the Beaux-Arts in Paris and decided to found the Martinerie workshop in 1956, named after the street in the commune of Luzillé, in Indre-et-Loire, where they established their first workshop in an old farm. They moved to the countryside to live and work away from the city. In 1966, they discovered Hauteclaire Castle, purchasing it from the farmers who occupied it. At the time, the castle was a very poor and isolated place. The three artists did not live in isolation and maintained daily connections with the surrounding community. Their tapestries combined spiritual elements with references to Star Trek and Mœbius. They restored the castle themselves, made their own furniture, and cared for all the rooms, even the blue mosaic bathroom, where the words of a 15th-century Indian weaver and philosopher named Kabîr can be read. They practiced painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, and engraving. Their initial interest was in embroidery and cross-stitch, before they learned high-loom and jacquard weaving techniques, which became their signature style. From the 1960s to the 1980s, they worked tirelessly and "sold around the world," thanks to their presence in two galleries, before withdrawing from the art market to "live on their savings." The Martinerie workshop's collection includes more than 1,000 jacquard tapestries, 300 paintings, and 300 objects. The castle itself is a complete work that must be examined in every detail to understand the extent of the practice of these three weavers. The history of the workshop can speak to young generations in search of meaning, as the artists called themselves "spiritual sisters" and shared the values of a "simple way of life," eating organic and vegetarian long before these became trends. They "sought self-sufficiency" and "invented themselves one after another as beekeepers, shepherds, horticulturists," according to Girard. They planted 7,000 trees in the castle's park, "embroidered their own clothes," and campaigned against the construction of a nearby highway.