The hand is the archive

Variation is the signature

Ink thickens at the turn; no two spirals share the same pressure.

Names make the sheet personal

Letterforms sit inside the ornament, preserving a maker's presence.

Human presence changes the field

Niuean cloth makes room for figures where other tapa keeps to ornament.

Order grows from the centre

Concentric squares carry the eye inward, without a carved board.