01 / Technique translated
Cloth pretending
to be cloth.
How do you print the appearance of something woven?
Open the study ↗Opening pattern studies…
Opening pattern studies…
Afterlives / A field of connections
A flower becomes a field. A picture becomes a room.
A way of making becomes another way of seeing.
01 / Silk, Vienna, 1900
02 / Paper, Japan, 18th–19th century
A comparison of pattern and technique.
Choose what catches your eye
One figure, different roles. A visual passage across three objects.
02 / Examine a techniquePaper imitates yarn.Understand a relationship between ways of making.
03 / Trace a remakeThe same bird, later.A documented copy, with a more complicated date for its model.
04 / Follow a motifFollow a flower.From a cyanotype specimen to a painted repeat and a Jacquard loom.
The studies / Eight editorial treatments
Tools, rooms, workshops, bodies and histories.
Each connection asks for its own way of looking.
8 of 8 studies
Motifs and structures are reviewed visual observations. Materials and historical relationships have separate source records.
Another way through
A pearl ring, a tunic roundel, a quilted field. Compare how an enclosure organizes what we see.
Follow an enclosureAn editorial comparison. No historical chain is asserted.
A connection is a claim