Japanese

Kumiko, sashiko, and pattern grammars from Japanese craft tradition.

Deco Fan

An overlapping scallop fan, repeated across the field. The same shape runs through Japanese seigaiha textiles and 1920s Art Deco metalwork.

Ginkgo leaves arranged four around a center, repeated across the plane. A favorite of Japanese and Art Nouveau designers for over a century.

A six-fold lattice of pierced grilles — the dense geometric weave that runs through Islamic latticework and Japanese kumiko.

The first of a four-figure series drawn from kumiko — the Japanese wooden lattice tradition, translated into a flat repeating surface design.

The second figure in the kumiko series — a different lattice variation built on the same Japanese wooden joinery vocabulary.

The third figure in the kumiko series — another variation on the wooden joinery tradition rendered as a flat surface pattern.

The fourth figure in the kumiko series — the closing variation on a vocabulary built over centuries of Japanese wooden joinery.