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Katagami — Flying Fish
Katagami — Flying Fish
A screen-print of a stencil — the medium talking about itself.
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Regular fit · Pre-shrunk · 5.3 oz cotton
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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), 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 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)
Care — Machine wash cold, inside out. Tumble dry low. Do not iron directly on the print.
“The contrast is amazing and it really brings out the detail. In the archive, the information about it relating to screen printing (…) that sold it.”
Materials & Fit
PrintScreen-printed
Fabric100% combed cotton
Weight5.3 oz / 180 gsm · midweight
FitRegular fit, pre-shrunk
ConstructionSide-seamed · shoulder-to-shoulder tape · double-needle hems
BlankAS Colour Staple 5001
Made byReal Thread, USA
ShippingFree in the US on 2+ pieces · $8 flat on one
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One screen at a time.
Our tees are screen-printed by Real Thread. Watch Isolde take shape on the press, from the first line to the red field.
Isolde on press · 12 seconds · Filmed at Real Thread
A Japanese thread
Stencil, woodblock and silhouette: explore the Japanese archive.
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