%C2%A9 Nuno Corporation %2F Woven Structure Pattern%2C Jun%27ichi Arai%2C 1984
Cotton; jacquard, double-weaveexpand_more
Gift of Richard L. Simmons and Rosa Lynn Pinkusexpand_more 2006.120.19
In 1984 the renowned Japanese weaver Junichi Arai, Reiko Sudo and others formed a new company, NUNO, to create distinctive, contemporary textiles. This fabric was one of first textiles produced and is a celebration of cloth, traditional as well as modern.
The pattern was taken from a rumpled piece of African Kente cloth, which was photocopied over and over again until the image pixilated into a distinctive design that human hands could never have produced. Then 3,600 punch cards were made to program a jacquard loom that had been threaded with a very high twist yarn, traditionally made for the production of crepe silk cloth.
NUNO fabrics celebrate a unique collaboration of traditional textile sensibilities and the renowned technology of contemporary Japan.
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