San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
Aug 4 through Oct 25, 2009
Fabric Tattoos: Spirit of the The Mola
Molas are a traditional Panamanian textile created by the Kuna people of the San Blas islands and worn in their costumes. They are created using a unique reverse appliqué technique, where the layers of colored cotton cloth are turned under to reveal the colors in the layers below.

San Francisco Quilters Guild meetings
Third Tuesday of each month at 7:15pm
The Chinese Seventh Day Adventist Church, 7777 Geary Blvd. (entrance on 42nd Ave), San Francisco, CA.
Guests pay $5 admission. All levels of quilters are welcome.

The Arnaldo Caprai Virtual Museum of Textile Arts is an online museum devoted to the textile arts, with the ability to search by period, typology, technique, provenance and keyword. Here is a beautiful Italian doily depicting a winged child astride a four-legged animal, made using the punto Venezia technique, and created between 1890 and 1910.