Mark Pezinger Books Fabricating Adjacency (eds.): Textile, Trade and Terror (Òwú, Fil, Faden, Thread) Fine Companions No. 4 follows the trade routes of fabrics such as damask and lace, connecting geographically distant places and weaving their histories together.
Textile, Trade and Terror (Òwú, Fil, Faden, Thread) is a multi-sensory inquiry into the entanglements of textiles with
history, memory, and reclamation. It follows the trade routes of fabrics such as damask and lace, connecting geographically distant places and weaving the histories of Bregenz, Lagos, St. Gallen, Vienna, and Dakar into a polyphonic fabric of recollection, refusal,
and possible futures. It bears witness to relations of power, modes of belonging, and forms of knowledge that have passed through hands, bodies, and generations.
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Think of this book less as a map with a fixed path and more as a landscape. It has no fixed beginning or end; there is no linear storyline. Instead, it is a space to wander, pause, return, and follow your own threads of curiosity.
You will encounter essays, reflections, research notes, diary entries, quotations, images, interviews and perhaps missing parts.Together, they form a patchwork of perspectives.
At the heart of this publication lies a quilt: sixteen meters long and three meters wide, it is both artwork and method. Like this book, the quilt is an articulation of the research into, with, and through textiles.
Composed of fabrics that bear traces of colonial entanglements as well as resilience, care, and joy, the quilt assembles stories, memories, and gestures into a living archive.
A final note on its production: while the dust jacket is printed on Neobond, a robust paper commonly used for official state documents until recently, the interior uses the Iris Offset print process.
In this specialized technique, multiple colors are filled simultaneously side by side into the ink fountain of a single printing unit, creating subtle gradients and layered transitions.
Just as threads intersect, overlap, and form complex patterns in weaving, Iris printing produces a similar sense of interlacing visual strands that weave the different contributions together. [show less]
