Decorative paper

Catalog note / 解説

Itajime is a traditional Japanese tie-dyeing process used to produce both quite specific patterns and others in which chance plays a large part. For the former, wooden clamps with mirror-image carved designs are tied either side of folded cloth or paper, to exert great pressure, and then the clamped cloth is submerged in the dye. The parts of the fabric that are highly pressurized resist dye. Peter Ford has used a modified process in which paper is folded many t imes before tying and dipping. The most difficult part of the process is untying the tightly folded bundle while still wet, as the paper fibre is very fragile at this stage, but the paper must be opened up and spread flat while stil…