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Katagami — Flying Fish
Katagami — Flying Fish
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A screen-print of a stencil — the medium talking about itself.
About the print
A katagami is a Japanese paper stencil used to resist-dye patterns onto kimono cloth (katazome) — a direct forerunner of Western screen printing. 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 is 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.
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About the craft
Katagami 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.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · Katagami, Flying Fish · Japan, late 19th–early 20th century · accession 1946-104-8 · Public domain (CC0)
Founders Edition · our launch price. $49 after the first edition.
Care — Machine wash cold, inside out. Tumble dry low. Do not iron directly on the print.
Materials & Fit
Sustainably made, ethically certified.
Vegancertified
UPF 50+sun protection
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