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

Mayan and Peruvian Chancay pieces)

so I might perch them somewhere as guards

I find her (I think her) very beautiful

here framing a perfect round of sky just above the tree line

I LOVE her

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