Nishapur Epigraphic Ware is the tenth-century slip-painted pottery of Samanid Khorasan: a reddish earthenware body dipped in white clay, then wrapped with a single band of black manganese Kufic script that curves into vast empty margins. Its power is refusal — no figuration, no colour, no ornament, only near-black lettering suspended on warm oxidised buff.

This system translates that austerity into interface. It holds to one dark ink and a family of clay reds and ochres on an aged fired-clay ground, letting negative space and calligraphic weight carry the composition. Restraint is the brand, not decoration.