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Unknown Maker, Japanese

Unfinished Textile-Printing Stencil (kumo katagami)

Maker

Unknown Maker, Japanese, maker

Culture

Japanese

Title

Unfinished Textile-Printing Stencil (kumo katagami)
Katagami (pattern paper), stencil

Year

1850 - ca. 1900

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Dimensions

42.6 x 26.7 cm (16 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Bequest of Isaac C. Bates

Object Number

13.454

Type

Exhibition History

Take Care
Aug 20, 2022 – Mar 22, 2023

Label copy

This stencil for resist-printing textiles was made from used ledger papers. All the materials involved were natural and safe for the artists, and the processes speak to resource preservation and respect.

First, kōzo fibers from the mulberry tree were boiled, pounded into pulp, swirled with a gelatinous material, and made into ledger paper. After the paper was used, it was laminated with fermented persimmon stain (kakishibu). Designs were then cut using the thrust-carving (tsukibori) technique, transforming it into a stencil.

Rice paste (mochiko) would have been brushed through the openings onto a textile before it was submerged in a dye vat, but this example was never completed or used.

–Laurie Anne Brewer, associate curator of costume and textiles

 

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Public Domain This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Tombstone

Unknown Maker, Japanese, maker
Unfinished Textile-Printing Stencil (kumo katagami); Katagami (pattern paper), stencil, 1850 - ca. 1900
Mulberry paper (kōzo) with fermented persimmon-tannin stain (kakishibu) and ink inscription; thrust-cut (tsukibori)
42.6 x 26.7 cm (16 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches)
Bequest of Isaac C. Bates 13.454

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