draping resolution

The Design Story

draping resolution

The work in this series manifests as a monumental diptych, also rising to a uniform height of ten feet. Executed through a rigorous hand-knotted stitching method, this work deliberately synthesises flat dhurrie knotting techniques with long, untufted fringes that hang suspended, weeping from the textile’s lower edges. This composition is born from a fascination with how physical dripping introduces an orderly distortion into the pristine resolution of a digital image. Here, Patel uses the rhythmic, repetitive labour of the weave to map an intentional ‘leak’ within the process of technological transduction. The pattern replicates itself precisely until it encounters the loose, falling fringe, where the line slips away from the CAD program's digital grid and yields entirely to gravity to create a space where distortion itself becomes an organised, structural phenomenon.