While Sheetal Seth celebrated her work at the one-day exhibition “Unstitched: A Celebration of the Saree” on March 29 at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, her personal love for experimental textiles is a lifelong journey.  Since moving from India to California in 1995, Seth has always carried her mother’s artistic influence through working with sarees.  “I’ve been trained in fine arts as a kid. This is important because my mom was the one who got me interested in art, so she’s the main inspiration,” Seth said. “She would send me to these art classes when I was in school. I still have those drawing books and refer to those notes.” Sarees are a piece of traditional Indian culture characterized by long pieces of unstitched cloth draped along the body and often worn for formal events. They have since become a medium for Indian artists to sketch, paint, stitch and embroider their artwork onto. These silk garments are often woven and worked on for months before the artists finally share...