A patchwork-quilt pattern is popping up in different color schemes on banners, athletes' uniforms, sport arenas, and, fittingly, patchwork quilts covering beds in many Olympic hotels. The quilt pattern is actually from folk arts across Russia 鈥� which include embroidery, painting, wood carving, and metal crafts 鈥� pasted together from diamond-shaped snippets, according to the Sochi 2014 webpage (where you can check out individual designs).
The only motif in the tapestry that鈥檚 not in fact a riff on traditional crafts is a small snap-shot of the twirly pattern decorating Russia's Olympics uniforms since the Summer Games in Beijing in 2008.
