Indian woman sewing textiles at Dastkar women's craft co-operative, the Ranthambore Artisan Project, in Rajasthan, Northern India

Indian women sewing textiles at Dastkar women's craft co-operative, the Ranthambore Artisan Project, in Rajasthan, Northern India

Indian woman sewing textiles at Dastkar women's craft co-operative, the Ranthambore Artisan Project, in Rajasthan, Northern India

Indian woman sewing textiles at Dastkar women's craft co-operative, the Ranthambore Artisan Project, in Rajasthan, Northern India

Indian patchwork quilt with tiger motif at Dastkar women's craft co-operative, the Ranthambore Artisan Project, Rajasthan, India

Patchwork quilt, San Antonio Aguas Calientes, Guatemala, Central America

A fire is smoking in the glow of the low sunlight. The small manageable fields are like a patchwork quilt with the colours of the different crops laid out over "the land of 1000 hills". Gikongoro, Rwanda, East Africa

Known as the land of 1000 hills, Rwanda's countryside is reminiscent of a patchwork quilt of small manageable fields growing a variety of crops and agricultural terraces to utilise the land space available. Gitarama, Rwanda, East Africa

Like a patchwork quilt covering many of the steep hills of Kigali, this housing in some of the poorer areas of Kigali house a high proportion of the population and are commonplace throughout the Capitol City. Kigali, Rwanda, East Africa

A patchwork blanket and pillow cases hanging on a clothesline with the Atlantic ocean in the background, Newfoundland, Canada