Memory Unlocked: The Hunt of the Unicorn

I saw a Facebook post today about this unicorn tapestry that someone copied onto a cookie cake. OH this unicorn tapestry! I love it. Actually, it's a series of seven tapestries called "The Hunt of the Unicorn."

I went to college in NY, took art history as a minor. My Art History minor was because of the Humanities class I took in senior year of high school. I fell in love with learning about history and civilization through its art and architecture. So cool. 

This unicorn tapestry is at The Cloisters in Fort Tryon, NY. It is a beautiful museum. We all went as a class, with sketchbooks and an assignment to pick an art piece and write about it. Though I loved the unicorn, I picked to write about one of the doorways they had there. Ornate, intricate stone doorways salvaged from Gothic and Romanesque monasteries, worked into the structure of the place.

I forget which teacher taught about “finding the frog” in the tapestry design…Ted Roth? There's a tiny white frog in it somewhere. When I saw it in person, I found the frog.

Good memory unlocked. 

Also? This cookie cake is amazing!🍪