"It's just like the rest of the world," Flint said. "It just moves every day."
Further down the passage, the group ventured into a room where two women were sewing portions of a large, glittering blanket covered with Swarovski crystals and gold and silver spangles - the same sort of blanket that circus elephants sport in front of cheering crowds.
"They're basically giant industrial tapestries," Acton said. Tapestries that can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to create, he added. Those no longer in use go to a museum or are destroyed, he said, a circus tradition that guarantees that no other act gets its hands on them.
