One Hundred Stitches, One Hundred Villages: The Beauty of Patchwork from Rural China

Museum of Fine Arts
Boston, Massachusetts
December 6, 2025–May 3, 2026

Nancy Berliner, the MFA’s senior curator of Chinese art, traveled to villages in northern China to collect the 20 patchwork textiles shown here. Descended from patched robes worn by Buddhist monks, these abstract compositions demonstrate, write the organizers, “creativity and fine artistic sensibilities that flourish far beyond the borders of established Chinese art canons.”