In the intimate space of the Foundling Museum ,Perry's tapestries loom close, so that you seem to meet the men and women walking through them – as you do with Hogarth's series.
There we spent the rest of the afternoon looking at Moorish, and Persian, and Japanese pottery, at lacquers, at bronzes, at tapestries, until my eyes closed of themselves.
Since launching back in 2012, Tapestry has tried to pay close attention to the way users are building their tapestries.
Her frustration is encapsulated in the image of her randomly stabbing tapestries with the sword she kept close to hand.
Rather, Elsner looks at smaller objects used or displayed in private settings and closed religious rituals, including tapestries, ivories, altars, jewelry, and even silverware.
It's almost impossible to pick one track from the close-stitched tapestry that is Astral Weeks, where every song – excepting, perhaps, the smooth swing of The Way Young Lovers Do – makes persuasive claim to being a masterpiece.
The resulting music video weaves together inspirations as diverse as spiritual symbolism and color theory into a continuous, evolving tapestry of swelling instrumentals, closing books, and opening doors.
If the Ulster Museum is too far to visit, fans worldwide can get an up close and personal look at the tapestry by visiting Ireland's tourism website.
The tapestry is called The Expulsion From No 8 Eden Close.
Police speculated that the thief or thieves hid in the Episcopal cathedral until closing time and then escaped with the tapestries.
