A fascination / pattern & process
A pattern changes
its surface.
When does cloth pretend to be something else?
Begin with paper that evokes weaving. Follow the question into a woven flower, or a silk border. Look at what each object is made of—and what it asks you to see.
Look at the stencil ↓01 / Look at what remains
The weave is
an appearance.
Cooper Hewitt identifies this katagami as a geometric pattern imitating warp ikat, or kasuri.
The record does not identify a particular source cloth or original impression. The surviving tool is paper, even though its appearance invokes weaving.
Open the existing interactive study ↗02 / Choose your connection
What would you
like to follow?
An authored comparison
Keep the pattern. Change the making.
The stencil evokes warp ikat through cut paper. Moser's floral pattern is made through weaving. Together they let us ask how a process carries an image.
Follow the making →An authored comparison
Keep the repetition. Follow the border.
The stencil's geometric field and the silk fragment's pearl-bordered roundels offer different ways of organizing repeated forms. Follow the space between and within them.
Follow the border →03 / Make it your own
A question
worth keeping.
Save a work, add a private note, or gather a selection around a question. A holding museum is a doorway to another collection—not confirmation that the object is on display.
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