Colour in Bloom

Colour laid over a woven ground.

Colour-printed cotton deserves its own reading shelf. Peonies, lotus ponds, birds, butterflies and garden compositions move across woven grounds whose yarn and texture remain visible beneath the print.

What belongs to the cloth, and what was added to its surface?

Printed colour over woven cloth

The ground cloth and the printed image can be read as two connected but separate surfaces.

Peony gardens

Peony moves between bouquets, garden fields and mixed floral compositions.

Lotus & pond compositions

The named lotus motif expands into a broader pond composition when leaves, buds and waterside plants enter the field.

Bird & Flower

Bird-and-flower is treated as a pictorial family rather than one fixed symbolic unit.

Butterfly & Peacock

Two clearly named pictorial motifs show how animal imagery changes with colour and layout.

Colour registration & workshop variation

Small shifts in colour and alignment are recorded as observations, not automatic proof of a particular workshop method.

Across the current collection

Current non-indigo printed records are gathered here without collapsing their printing techniques.