{"title":"Flying Fish — The shirt and the book","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe shirt that started a book. \u003ci\u003eFlying Fish\u003c\/i\u003e is a Japanese paper stencil, cut around 1900 to dye cloth, now at the Cooper Hewitt. It was the first katagami we screen-printed: the same openings, read the other way round.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLooking for the next one, we read the museum’s credit lines and kept finding the same name: Helen Snyder, who gave the Cooper Hewitt 290 objects in 1976. So we made a book about her gift.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFree US shipping on two or more pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"katagami-flying-fish","title":"Katagami — Flying Fish","description":"\u003cstyle\u003e\n.mtr-ficha .lede{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:20px;line-height:1.4;color:#1e1b17;margin:0 0 4px}\n.mtr-ficha .filete{width:34px;height:2px;background:#6f5d4a;margin:18px 0;border:0}\n.mtr-ficha h4{font-family:'Ciutadella',sans-serif;font-size:11px;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6f5d4a;margin:18px 0 8px}\n.mtr-ficha p{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-size:15.5px;line-height:1.66;color:#4c443b;margin:0 0 12px}\n.mtr-ficha em{font-style:italic}\n.mtr-ficha details{margin:2px 0}\n.mtr-ficha summary{list-style:none;cursor:pointer;font-family:'Ciutadella',sans-serif;font-weight:600;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6f5d4a;padding:6px 0}\n.mtr-ficha summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}\n.mtr-ficha details[open] summary{display:none}\n.mtr-ficha .prov{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:12px;color:#8a8075;line-height:1.5;margin:14px 0 0}\n\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mtr-ficha\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"lede\"\u003eA screen-print of a stencil — the medium talking about itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003chr class=\"filete\"\u003e\n  \u003ch4\u003eAbout the print\u003c\/h4\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eA \u003cem\u003ekatagami\u003c\/em\u003e is a Japanese paper stencil used to resist-dye patterns onto kimono cloth (\u003cem\u003ekatazome\u003c\/em\u003e), on the same principle as the screen that prints this shirt. This one shows flying fish leaping among reeds. Its material is the whole story: mulberry paper treated with fermented persimmon juice, reinforced with fine silk threads — and those silk threads are, quite literally, the bridge from paper stencil to silkscreen. We print it the way the stencil dyed cloth: the shirt \u003cem\u003eis\u003c\/em\u003e the indigo field, and the fish are resist-dyed in cream. One ink, faithful to the craft — the tool that made textiles, become a textile. Colour is never ours to add.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cdetails\u003e\u003csummary\u003eContinue reading ▾\u003c\/summary\u003e\n    \u003ch4\u003eAbout the craft\u003c\/h4\u003e\n    \u003cp\u003eKatagami were cut by hand from washi paper and used across Japan for centuries to dye cloth — a single kimono could require dozens. In the 19th century they reached Europe, where they helped shape both Art Nouveau and the birth of silkscreen printing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003c\/details\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"prov\"\u003eCooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · \u003cem\u003eKatagami, Flying Fish\u003c\/em\u003e · Japan, late 19th–early 20th century · accession 1946-104-8 · Public domain (CC0)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:18px 0 0;font-family:Ciutadella,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#6b5c4e\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"color:#2a2119\"\u003eCare\u003c\/strong\u003e — Machine wash cold, inside out. Tumble dry low. Do not iron directly on the print.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:18px 0 0;border-top:1px solid #e0d7ca;padding-top:14px\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/the-archive\/flying-fish-the-first-silkscreen-was-paper\" style=\"font-family:Ciutadella,sans-serif;font-weight:600;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#2f3d6e;text-decoration:none\"\u003eRead this piece in The Archive →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Métrica","offers":[{"title":"S","offer_id":48880566960228,"sku":"SA-FLYINGFISH-S","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"M","offer_id":48734801363044,"sku":"SA-FLYINGFISH-M","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":48734801395812,"sku":"SA-FLYINGFISH-L","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":48734801428580,"sku":"SA-FLYINGFISH-XL","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2XL","offer_id":48734801461348,"sku":"SA-FLYINGFISH-2XL","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"3XL","offer_id":48734801494116,"sku":"SA-FLYINGFISH-3XL","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0661\/2202\/3012\/files\/katagami-flying-fish-1.jpg?v=1783890157"},{"product_id":"katagami-helen-snyder-her-name-is-on-every-one-of-them-book","title":"Katagami — Her Name Is on Every One of Them — Book","description":"\u003cstyle\u003e\n.mtr-ficha .lede{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:20px;line-height:1.4;color:#1e1b17;margin:0 0 4px}\n.mtr-ficha .filete{width:34px;height:2px;background:#6f5d4a;margin:18px 0;border:0}\n.mtr-ficha h4{font-family:'Ciutadella',sans-serif;font-size:11px;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6f5d4a;margin:18px 0 8px}\n.mtr-ficha p{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-size:15.5px;line-height:1.66;color:#4c443b;margin:0 0 12px}\n.mtr-ficha li{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-size:15.5px;line-height:1.6;color:#4c443b}\n.mtr-ficha em{font-style:italic}\n.mtr-ficha details{margin:2px 0}\n.mtr-ficha summary{list-style:none;cursor:pointer;font-family:'Ciutadella',sans-serif;font-weight:600;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6f5d4a;padding:6px 0}\n.mtr-ficha summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}\n.mtr-ficha details[open] summary{display:none}\n.mtr-ficha .prov{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:12px;color:#8a8075;line-height:1.5;margin:14px 0 0}\n\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mtr-ficha\"\u003e\n  \u003ch4 style=\"margin-top:0\"\u003eThe book\u003c\/h4\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eIn 1976 a woman gave the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, two hundred and ninety objects, nearly all of them Japanese dye stencils: about seven in every ten katagami the museum counted three years later. It was the only gift she made them. Her name is on every one of them; almost nothing else about her has survived.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThis book shows twelve of her stencils twice: as the objects they are, and as the cloth each would have printed, rebuilt from its own openings. With an essay on the gift and the craft of Ise katagami, and a catalogue of the eighty-two stencils the museum has published.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003ch4\u003eWhy this book is different\u003c\/h4\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eA katagami is a tool: a sheet of paper, cut so that dye paste could pass through it onto cloth. Museums keep and show the tool; the cloth it printed is long gone. \u003cstrong\u003eThis book shows both.\u003c\/strong\u003e On one page, the stencil as it is kept today, with the museum’s record. On the facing page, the cloth it would have made, rebuilt from the stencil’s own openings. The cloth is a digital reconstruction made from the stencil itself, not a historical textile.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eWhere the museum’s measurements allow it, details are shown at actual size. The book ends with every stencil from her gift that the museum has published with an image, eighty-two in all, as a catalogue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \n  \u003ch4\u003eThe object\u003c\/h4\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA hardcover book, printed on Mohawk Superfine\u003c\/strong\u003e: a 120 gsm uncoated art paper with a soft matte surface, heavier than a magazine page and without the shine of a photo book. The cover is matte-laminated. A4, 66 pages, in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eIt is printed to order in the USA when you buy it, one copy at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cdetails\u003e\n\u003csummary\u003eContinue reading ▾\u003c\/summary\u003e\n    \u003ch4\u003eInside\u003c\/h4\u003e\n    \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI · Her name is on every one of them — the gift, and what is known about the woman who made it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eII · The ones that need holding together — the craft of Ise katagami\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIII · From the paper to the cloth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe plates — twelve stencils, twelve cloths\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIV · From the stencil to the screen — how a katagami led to our own screen-printed shirt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe eighty-two — the catalogue of her published stencils\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n    \u003ch4\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h4\u003e\n    \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA4 portrait · 8.3 × 11.7 in (210 × 297 mm)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHardcover · matte-laminated cover · white endpapers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e66 pages · Mohawk Superfine 120 gsm, uncoated, matte\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eText in English · notes, chronology, sources and image credits\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinted to order in the USA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n  \u003c\/details\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"prov\"\u003eStencil images: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, open access. The cloths are Métrica’s reconstructions. Published independently by Métrica; not affiliated with the institutions credited.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:18px 0 0;border-top:1px solid #e0d7ca;padding-top:14px\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/the-archive\/katagami-helen-snyder-book-what-the-paper-printed\" style=\"font-family:Ciutadella,sans-serif;font-weight:600;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1f2f52;text-decoration:none\"\u003eRead this piece in The Archive →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Métrica","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50922886889572,"sku":"SA-BK-SNYDER","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0661\/2202\/3012\/files\/snyder-foto-1.jpg?v=1790639185"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.metrica.art\/collections\/flying-fish.oembed","provider":"Métrica","version":"1.0","type":"link"}