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    Christine Druitt-Preston: Wrapped, 2025 Stitched Washi and Wenzhou paper garment with obi on metal rail Image Size: 160x150x5cm. Photographer: Hi Res Digital Combining printmaking, stitching and found materials, this in artwork plays with the notion of a garment as a body wrapping. Salvaged Tatoushi, the stringed Washi paper used traditionally to wrap Kimonos has been appliqued with hand stitched Lino block print motifs, then cut and sewn into a form that references the Japanese wrapped-front, lined Kimono garment with Obi, or sash, it once held safe.
    Christine Druitt-Preston: Wrapped, 2025 Stitched Washi and Wenzhou paper garment with obi on metal rail Image Size: 160x150x5cm. Photographer: Hi Res Digital Combining printmaking, stitching and found materials, this in artwork plays with the notion of a garment as a body wrapping. Salvaged Tatoushi, the stringed Washi paper used traditionally to wrap Kimonos has been appliqued with hand stitched Lino block print motifs, then cut and sewn into a form that references the Japanese wrapped-front, lined Kimono garment with Obi, or sash, it once held safe.
    Christine Druitt-Preston: Wrapped, 2025 (back view). Stitched Washi and Wenzhou paper garment with obi on metal rail Image Size: 160x150x5cm. Photographer: Hi Res Digital Combining printmaking, stitching and found materials, this in artwork plays with the notion of a garment as a body wrapping. Salvaged Tatoushi, the stringed Washi paper used traditionally to wrap Kimonos has been appliqued with hand stitched Lino block print motifs, then cut and sewn into a form that references the Japanese wrapped-front, lined Kimono garment with Obi, or sash, it once held safe.

    Christine Druitt Preston
    Wrapped,, 2025

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    Stitched Washi and Wenzhou paper garment with obi on metal rail
    Overal Size: 160x150x5cm

    Photographer: Hi Res Digital.

    Combining printmaking, stitching and found materials, this in artwork plays with the notion of a garment as a body wrapping. Salvaged Tatoushi, the stringed Washi paper used traditionally to wrap Kimonos has been appliqued with hand stitched Lino block print motifs, then cut and sewn into a form that references the Japanese wrapped-front, lined Kimono garment with Obi, or sash, it once held safe. ~ Christine Druitt Preston 2025.

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    Christine Druitt Preston’s prints are held in Australian and International Public Collections including:
    Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, NSW.
    Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
    Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Centre Collection, NSW.
    Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW.
    The State University of New York, NY, USA.
    Alfred University, NY, USA.
    Friends of Hazelhurst, Broadhurst Cottage, Hazelhurst Art Centre

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