Lifelong-Learning for Personal Development

Appliqué- The art of stitching fabric pieces onto a base fabric to create pictures and patterns. Each culture developed appliqué for different reasons, sometimes to make fabric go further during hard times, sometimes for ceremony, sometimes simply for beauty. But everywhere, it served the same purpose—to save fabric, to tell stories, to create something beautiful from scraps. In appliqué, you layer stories, one on top of another, building depth and dimension. The smallest pie

Shibori in Japan, Bandhej in India, and Tie-dye, you bind, stitch, fold, or twist the fabric areas to resist dye before dyeing it.