Shirt$39
Flying Fish · the shirt
- A paper dye-stencil cut around 1900, now at the Cooper Hewitt
- One cream ink on an indigo shirt, screen-printed by Real Thread, Orlando, FL
- Sizes S–3XL
Shirt size
Size guide Shirt details →Katagami · Flying Fish · Japan, c. 1900
The shirt thatstarted a book.
A Japanese paper stencil was the first katagami we screen-printed. Looking for the next one, we kept finding the same name in the museum’s records, and made a book about her.
Book$49
Her Name Is on Every One of Them · the book
- Twelve of Helen Snyder’s stencils, each facing the cloth it would have printed
- With the catalogue of all eighty-two the museum has published
- Hardcover · A4 · 66 pages · Mohawk Superfine 120 gsm
Her name is on every one of them.
In 1976 Helen Snyder gave the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, two hundred and ninety objects, nearly all of them Japanese dye stencils. It was the only gift she made them. Her name is on every one of them; almost nothing else about her has survived.
Museums keep the tool; the cloth it printed is long gone. The book shows both: each stencil as it is kept today, and facing it, the cloth rebuilt from its own openings. The cloths are our digital reconstructions, not historical textiles.
Shirt
Screen-printed at Real Thread in Orlando, Florida.
Book
Printed to order in the USA, one copy at a time.
Source
Stencils: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, open access.