Calendar 2026: Quad explores darning, a textile repair technique where the surrounding area of damaged fabric is used as a loom to weave over.
Historically, darning was taught to students as a means to mend the cloth of various domestic items. Students would darn both practical and decorative patterns over the damaged sections of fabric, imitating different designs depending on their skill level. Such functional and ornamental darning patterns are utilised in Calendar 2026: Quad to produce the shapes that constitute its design.
The calendar takes its title from the word quad, a term that was historically given to a metal spacer used in letterpress typesetting and would later go on to refer to the spaces found in between type. Calendar 2026: Quad treats these spaces, along with areas around the edge of the ground fabric, as ‘holes’ or ‘damaged’ areas to darn.
The embroidery has been photographed and offset printed with fluorescent blue, magenta, fluorescent yellow and black ink to a 1:1 scale. Each calendar is hand numbered and comes pre-folded in an envelope. Calendar 2026: Quad can be used as a decorative item or as a functional calendar
440 × 530 mm (180 × 220 mm folded)
Offset printing with fluorescent blue, magenta, fluorescent yellow and black ink
Edition of 555
23 euro per copy
Concept and embroidery_Masaki Komoto
Graphic design_Yuri Sato
Photography_Ayako Nishibori
English text editor_Ben Tupper
Printing_RadraaierSSP (Amsterdam, NL)
