He would wander between his home and the galleries at night, rearranging the unorthodox hangings.
This craft produces mainly large decorative wall hangings but also rugs and pieces of furniture.
Unlikely as it may seem, these hangings are reminiscent of paintings by Mark Rothko.
The last British hangings took place in 1964, although the gallows at most prisons have been redundant for much longer.
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Until recently, executions were rarely carried out in India, but in the last few months, India has carried out two hangings.
There are flags from Ghana, pop-arty pieces from Mali, shrine cloths from India, a meditation flag from Sri Lanka and temple hangings from Indonesia.
Fabric hangings enliven walls that would only bend a picture nail.
Blankets, wall hangings, handbags, table runners, alpaca-wool sweaters and scarves beam as brightly as the equatorial sun, lighting up the largest and finest craft market in South America.
The main exhibits are the surprisingly large textile wall hangings, most of them vivacious painted cottons, although some are embroidered and block-printed or woven silk brocade.
Reminded of a look she had seen in the Palazzo Brandolini in Venice, she used swaths of African and Indian fabrics to make patchwork hangings to cover the walls.
Mrs Hunt said she hoped her exhibition - which features about 200 pieces including jewellery, wall hangings and a life-sized elephant's head - would inspire people to "give rubbish a second chance".
Favorites are a recently acquired set of 17th-century Dutch silvered, painted and varnished leather wall hangings, shown with Pieter de Hooch's painting "Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting" (c. 1663-65) in which similar coverings appear.
But then in the 17th Century, supposed heretics were tried and executed here during the Spanish Inquisition -- burnings at the stake and deaths by garrotte took place on the north side of the square, hangings to the south.
The overall suicide rate fell by 2% between 1995 and 2009, according to Statistics Canada, but gun deaths only average about 16% of suicides and a decline in gun deaths was almost entirely made up by increases in hangings.
Best buys are babouches (traditional leather slippers), silver Berber jewellery, the famous blue-glazed Fassi ceramics, hand-sewn linen and cotton embroidery, Berber hendiras (traditional woven cloaks that make great wall hangings), argan oil (for cooking or in soap), saffron and other spices, brassware, and carpets of every type, style and quality.
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