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2 x JAPAN - Katagami / Textiles
until sunday march 29 2009
Mak - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art
T : (+43-1) 711 36-0
Stubenring 5
A-1010 Vienna
Austria
2008 marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Heinrich Siebold, to whom the MAK owes a large part of its Japanese collection.
A fairly unknown part of this collection are the katagami, dyeing stencils which reflect the fantastic wealth of Japanese fabric decoration. In line with a western reorientation of fashions, textile production also changed in Japan before 1900. Europeans eagerly collected the “sample patterns”, and their influence on textile art and decoration in Europe is unmistakable.