Read the ground before the mark
A dark field makes every bleached sign carry its own weight.
A readable material language
The mark holds memory
Four rules for turning a dark field into a record of the hand.
Every strip keeps a record
Narrow woven bands join edge to edge, never flattening the hand.
Variation is part of the code
Uneven pressure turns repeated squares into a living vocabulary.
The reverse still belongs
Ochre, russet and iron-brown stay visible at every seam.