Ise Katagami
伊勢型紙 / Muromachi period– / Technique / Stencil Printing
Dyeing stencils cut from persimmon-tannin laminated paper: drill, tool and stripe cutting produce continuous patterns so fine that the stencils themselves startled fin-de-siècle Europe as an art of line.
Cut continuous patterns / The brown of tannin paper / Hairline parallel stripe cutting / Positive-negative design
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Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- kiribori, dogubori and shimabori / the relation to Edo komon / the influence on fin-de-siècle Vienna