Chapter I — Harf °01
Aainaآئینہ
“mirror”
Black oversized tee — metallic leather vao over shattered-mirror mosaic
A vao cut from emerald-and-gold calligraphy leather, laid over a field of hand-set mirror shards in the old shisha tradition.
Every fragment was placed by one hand, one evening at a time. The mirror does what mirrors do — it puts the wearer inside the letter.
- Materials
- Heavyweight combed cotton, garment-dyed black · Calligraphy-etched metallic leather · Hand-cut mirror shards · Silver bullion thread
- Hand techniques
- Shisha mirror-work · Leather appliqué · Hand couching
- Hours of hand-work
- 46
- Edition
- 1 / 1
Sanad — chain of authenticity
VAO·I·01
Sealed with a hand-numbered certificate recording the hours, the materials, and the artisan's initial — with a fragment of the material it was born from.