FIELD NOTE 07 / PALETTE AS STRUCTURE
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THE TAKEAWAY / DOCUMENTED COLOUR

Bright colour carries the pattern.

Dyed quills turn a pierced bark field into a legible rhythm of units, spokes and rings.

Eight-point field Fixed-length units
around a centre

Dyed quill colours in catalogued panels

Share of panels · overlapping palette · %
80 60 40 20 0 72% Pink aniline 61% Red aniline 48% Orange 36% Blue 24% Undyed quill
This is the Miʼkmaq Quillwork design system, applied by Curio — a design-style library for AI agents. Full Miʼkmaq Quillwork guide → designbycurio.com/learn/mi-kmaq-quillwork-birchbark