Thursday, September 13, 2018

Katagami

I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product.
~Julie Taymor

Japanese stencils (Katagami) today, used for dyeing fabric. You can see how they do it here:



Metropolitan Museum of Art
19th century













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1 comment:

  1. HWYSeptember 13, 2018 at 8:17 AM

    Very cool to see how this is done...and really appreciate the creative process.

    The master stencil cutter must be amazingly talented...in awe of the concentric circles piece!

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