Antique Japanese Katagami Textile Stencil with Cranes, Branches, and Handwritten Notes wedding day portrait Mayan and Peruvian Chancay pieces)

Mayan and Peruvian Chancay pieces)

I find her (I think her) very beautiful

) Sweet and lovely

This is one of a few watercolor drawings I held onto from a larger batch I found a year or so ago

so I might perch them somewhere as guards

Antique Japanese Katagami Textile Stencil with Cranes, Branches, and Handwritten Notes wedding day portrait Mayan and Peruvian Chancay pieces)This is a Japanese "katagami" paper stencil, made of layers of mulberry paper laminated together and treated with kakishibu persimmon tannin that lends durability and water resistence. Paper stencil like this were traditionally used for patterning textiles, especially kimono fabric, using a resist dyeing process called katazome. I am not at all an expert but find them quite beautiful things, and really love the (all handcut) pattern on this one, with