Mr. McElhenney said he embraced their offer knowing it was a good opportunity for his show, and respecting what Mr. Benioff and Mr. Weiss do on "Game of Thrones," "executing that many story lines with that many characters, and creating such a rich and full tapestry every week".
Called Energy Flow, the project is a non-linear film experience composed of 10 story lines that are interwoven to create a unique audio-visual tapestry every time the film is viewed.
At the level of visual sensation, yes, it's all there, every part of the field, every stitch of the tapestry, seems to be filled in at once.
A lesser writer would have produced several volumes of stories; instead, Ismailov weaves them into a rich, many-coloured tapestry where every strand shines.
And there is much beauty on every page — the "sooty tapestry" of a fellow-traveller's hairy torso, or Pronek's skin first thing in the morning, "soft, with crease imprints, the fossils of slumber".
Today, Sooke Harbour House is one of Canada's half-dozen best restaurants, and it has a kitchen garden unlike any other in North America -- more than two acres of herbs, vegetables and edible flowers, many of them rarities, gradually devouring the lawns around the house, tumbling down to the sea, scaling hillsides in every direction, a living tapestry of leaf, shrub and color.
The Way We Live Now is a masterpiece of modulated prose, where every image and every line adds to a tapestry of moral degeneration.
Perhaps there was something inevitable about his move into tapestry, a craft every bit as traditional as pottery, and so conservative, it's radical.
In this age of musical and political cosmopolitanism, as opposed to alienating exclusivism or anything-goes pluralism, I hope for a celebration of every viable strand in our tapestry.
He played the parliamentary game better than most and will leave a lasting mark on every fabric of the Canadian tapestry, for good and for ill.
