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Katagami — Flying Fish — Notebook
Katagami — Flying Fish — Notebook
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The document, understood — then kept in use.
The document
A katagami: the hand-cut paper stencil that resist-dyed the cloth of the kimono, and a forerunner of screen-printing. The tool that made textiles — turned into one.
The notebook
The sheet is the cover; the spine carries the title. Inside, eleven pages of archival introduction — where the document comes from, who made it, how it was made, and what it left behind — and then the book gets out of the way: 106 pages to write in, 86 ruled and 20 dot grid.
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About the maker
Ise-Katagami · Suzuka, Japan. The stencil behind the printed textile.
Specifications
- A5 · 148 × 210 mm
- Perfect-bound, printed spine
- 120 pages — 11 archival + 106 to write in (86 ruled, 20 dot grid)
- 100 gsm uncoated paper
- Printed on demand in the USA
Katagami · Flying Fish, paper dye-stencil · c. 1900 · Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · Ise-Katagami · Japan · Accession 1946-104-8 · Public domain · CC0
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