It can be said that traditional Hmong dress is elaborate and colorful and Hmong women are renowned textile artists. The traditional process of making clothing begins with cultivation of the plants. The fibers must then be spun and prepared and dyed before they can be transformed into the cloth that is embroidered into breathtaking garments. It can be said that the most exquisite of these cloth pieces is the paj ntaub which is termed as the flower cloth in which geometric or organic designs are embroidered, appliquéd or batiked. The stitching methods are painstaking; with the most prized sewing performed in stitches so tiny they resemble minuscule beads. There are even dressing for special occasions which involve donning several layers of skirts, vests, fabric belts more than twenty feet long, wound around the waist and triangular cloth leggings.