Kuna tribal members of Panama and Colombia are famous for their molas, cotton panels with elaborate geometric designs created by a reverse appliqué technique.

Now nationally recognized for her quilts, she used traditional appliqué techniques to record local legends, Bible stories, and astronomical events on her quilts.

Gota is crafted using appliqué technique with a strip of gold or silver or various other coloured ribbons of different widths woven in a satin or twill weave.

She used traditional appliqué techniques to record local legends, Bible stories, and astronomical events on her quilts.

Molas are handmade using a reverse appliqué technique.

Ribbon work is an appliqué technique for clothing and dance regalia among Prairie and Great Lakes Native American tribes.

Reverse appliqué techniques are often used in combination with traditional appliqué techniques, to give a variety of visual effects.

They are famous for bright colors, and reverse appliqué techniques, creating designs with strong cultural and spiritual importance within the indigenous culture.

Her spare but eloquent quilt language involved a mastery of appliqué techniques, tribal emblems, Masonic devices and biblical imagery.

Up close you discover the remarkable fact that these complicated images are actually made by an elaborate appliqué technique.