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Transfer prints by Teresa Cole

July 6, 2010

From The Gambit Weekly
By D. Eric Bookhardt
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Teresa Cole’s Transfer expo recycles Victorian-era trends into the globalized present. In Victorian England, the art of paper cutting became a domestic style obsession. Cutout paper silhouettes of family members and elaborate, highly stylized landscape scenes adorned fashionable parlors all over the English-speaking world. Meanwhile, fabrics stenciled with botanical patterns in the teeming, then-British colony of India found a popular following in the West, where they were rebranded with British-sounding names like “paisley.” These design elements, along with some other oddball twists, add up to a cryptically decorous lexicon of signs and symbols in this unusual show at Gallery Bienvenu. This is possible because familiar decorative motifs often have a secret history of their own. For instance, the popular paisley fabric pattern is based on the sacred Tree of Life symbol of the ancient Zoroastrian religion.

D. Eric Bookhardt, The Gambit Weekly (July 6, 2010) (New Orleans, LA)

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From the Blog

Cicadas, Paper Pulp and a typhoon

December 13, 2014 Filed Under: Art, Japan, Papermaking, Travel Tagged With: Japan, papermaking

The word washi translates as Japanese paper, and contrary to popular belief Japanese paper is not made from rice. Most sheets are produced from the inner bark of Mulberry trees, that are grown as large shrubs and harvested once the Read more…

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