our rooms were decorated with embroidered bedsheets , blankets , quilts , curtains and tapestries with pictures of clothed wolves , like zelf , doing various human-like activities ; building houses , writing books , playing music , or farming , or fighting in wars ; others showed the full moon among the stars ; all ornately adorned with swirling , intertwining , sharp-pointed designs peculiarly reminiscent of claws and teeth , yet tempered with a gentility and artistry that seemed strangely at odds with their wolfish subjects .