Textile
Claim
One production artifact exists — two-colour screen separations for a shirt front — and beyond it the textile work is written, not made.
Construction
The source book gives textile its own chapter. What it proposes is pattern-to-pattern melding rather than a single repeat: a garment patterned differently at front, back, hem and yoke, and by extension a floor where each room carries a different pattern of the same family.
One file in the project is production work rather than proposal: a pair of two-colour screen-print separations for a shirt, labelled centre front, two colour, with the dark and white separations held as separate files and registration marks at the corners.
What exists, and what does not
The separations are the only artifact here that a supplier could act on. They are prepared files, which is a real stage of the work and worth recording as one.
There is no photograph of a printed garment anywhere on file, no woven sample, no fabric test, and no repeat worked out for a bolt. The book carries a wider list — apparel fabrics, scarves, ties, handbags and shoes, then home, commercial, automotive and outdoor textiles — and states it affirmatively, under the heading that anything you can put a pattern on is a product. Nothing on file turns any of it into an artifact, so this page reads the list as intent; that reading is the page's, not the book's.
The gap between “separations prepared” and “garment made” is the whole of this page's honest content.
Note
The shirt is the first thing that left the drawing. Worth saying how it came out.
Open questions
- Whether the shirt was actually printed. The files exist; no outcome is recorded.
- No repeat has been worked for woven or roll-printed cloth, where the pattern has to survive being folded and cut.
- The melding idea — different patterns at front, back, hem and yoke — has no drawn example.
- Colour. The separations are two-colour by necessity; nothing records which pairs work.
Checks
| What | How | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Screen separations | Two-colour, centre front, dark and white separations with registration marks | chaos tile.jpg |
| Textile chapter | Pattern-to-pattern melding; front, back, hem and yoke | A New Shape, p. 75 |
| Wider product list | Apparel, home, commercial and outdoor textiles, as aspiration | A New Shape, p. 78 |
| Photographed garment | None on file. | — |