Point Paper (mise-en-carte)
Leblanc
1870–1890
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor (gouache) over graphite with black ink on mold paper
- Dimensions
- 42.7 × 49.7 cm (16 7/8 × 19 5/8 in.); Matted: 46 × 55.8 cm (18 1/8 × 22 in.)
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
inkdrawing (image-making)gouacheaccessory - paper designpaper (fiber product)
About
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