The pictures are partly curtained by fabrics with African patterns, and the figures, as well as the borders, are ornamented with fabric collage.

On the wall behind her bed are framed fabric collages that her mother sewed when the family lived in Japan.

Her house is filled with family antiques as well as dozens of quilts and fabric collages she creates.

Then, suitably inspired, children will create fabric collages, letting their own imaginations fly free.

The main work is a series of three dozen extraordinary fabric collages, or miniquilts, stitched from clothing labels.

Her experimental "structure painting", repainting fabric collages and frames, is a notable technique used by Hofheiz-Döring.

Van den Akker's spring/summer line for 2001 perpetuated his tradition of fabric collage and appliquéd couture in softly draping shapes to flatter the figure.

"My fabric collages are a total re-immersion into that good ol' cut-and-paste, hands-on approach to art I'd lost with computer technology," she said.

Olah is known in the American South for her fabric collages which mimic elements of the natural world.

Some 75 American craftsmen are represented by striking jewelry, ceramics, blown glass, fabric collages and fanciful painted Sticks furniture.