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Point Paper (mise-en-carte)

c. 1880
Opaque watercolor (gouache) over graphite with black ink on mold paper
42.7 × 49.7 cm (16.8 × 19.6 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

This watercolor design of water lilies and other aquatic plants on paper is a mise-en-carte , or weaving draft, meant to serve as a bridge between the original design and the woven textile. Prepared on paper with a grid pattern whose lines represent warps and wefts, such drafts provided instructions for preparing the loom and for color usuage. Professional mise-en-carte readers were sometimes employed to assist the weavers and help them understand the designer's intensions. -A Global View: Recent Acquisitions of Textiles, 2012-2016, April 8-September 5, 2016

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