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Materials
Grouped by what a piece is made of, rather than what it is for.
- 01
Cotton
Handloom cotton takes dye unevenly, and the unevenness carries the light.
4 crafts - 02
Silk
Takes colour deeply and holds a drawn line without spreading.
2 crafts - 03
Wool
Spun fine enough to weave a cloth that carries embroidery without buckling.
2 crafts - 04
Wood
It has opinions before you begin. The grain decides where a face can go.
3 crafts - 05
Clay
It answers pressure immediately, and remembers every answer.
2 crafts - 06
Brass & Bronze
Persuaded by heat, then by patience. The wax model does not survive the casting.
3 crafts - 07
Silver
Drawn to wire thin enough to bend by breath, then soldered into structure.
2 crafts - 08
Stone
Nothing can be added back.
0 crafts - 09
Paper
Often made from what another trade finished with.
1 crafts - 10
Bamboo & Cane
Grown, dried, split, and rejoined into structure.
1 crafts - 11
Natural Dye
Madder, indigo, myrobalan, pomegranate, iron. Colour that has to be persuaded to bind.
4 crafts - 12
Thread
One line, thousands of decisions.
2 crafts