The town of Salins-les-Bains, France, is renowned for its historic salt-works. During the period 1502–1506 the canons of the collegiate church there commissioned an extraordinary series of fourteen tapestries commemorating the life and miracles of Saint Anatoile. Three of the tapestries are preserved in Paris at the Musée du Louvre, and documents survive recording the original programme of all fourteen tapestries. Of great interest is the stress laid on the Scottish origin of Saint Anatoile, who is described in the tapestries as 'fils du roi d'Escoce' ('son of the king of Scotland'). The importance of the saint's Scottish royal pedigree is visually emphasised by the prolific inclusion of the royal arms of Scotland: on one of the surviving tapestries the arms appear eleven times. What this commission tells us of early sixteenth-century Burgundian attitudes to Scots, the royal house of Scotland, and Scottish royal piety is here examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]