The Cross-Pollination Between Prints and Textiles Yields Abundance
Julie Schneider | Hyperallergic | 29th October 2024
Printing and textiles have swapped technologies back to at least 1455 when Gutenberg used textile stamping techniques in his new printing press. By the 1600’s “dressed prints” emerged, prints that had patterned fabrics sewn onto them. The boundary between paper and fabric is now even less distinct. Fabric-like patterns are printed on paper and then embroidered with stitching, making an object that “could be seen as a quilt itself, a print of a quilt, or a collage”. Images are here.