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TEXITURA is one of the main international magazines consisting of PATTERN DESIGN trends. For more than 40 years, each issue of the magazine is a burst of graphic inspiration for decoration of all kinds of surfaces. Each issue deals with a trend topic and offers several color palettes and more than 100 original fully vector designs and on-purpose created for this publication.

Andrea Cecilia Semino, one of the current designers of Mokita (being part of another Design studio, Estudio 358, was in charge of the presentation of graphic pieces in order to enter the tender of designers of the Texitura magazine, having been chosen on 3 occasions: Texitura 58 AW 18-19(2017) , Texitura 59 The Flower Book(2018) y Texitura 61 The Vintage 70´s Book(2019).

Emitex, Simatex and Confemaq, is a national fair of the apparel and textile sector, the biggest one of the industry which takes place in Buenos Aires once a year and it is sponsored and promoted by Messe Frankfurt of Argentina.

In February 2018 a tender took place taking the design as an innovation strategy, under the motto  “Constant Movement”. Our designer Luciana Ferrer was in charge of the project for such tender and the studio she was representing at that time (Etudio 358) was chosen and was part of the Design Point of the Emitex Fair, a space dedicated to the winning projects of the emerging national textile designers.

The purpose of the tender was to promote the national design in all its applications, as well as new professionals and their projects, both nationwide and worldwide.

Just like many other things that are presently taken for granted in the culture of most of the people, porcelain is also assumed to have been born in China. As assumed, people started to work with this material in times of the Han dynasty, between the 2nd Century before Christ and the 3rd Century of our Era.

In the 18th Century an exclusive ceramic department was founded in the city of Jingdezhen. And once the Ming dynasty came to power (1368-1644) right there a huge factory exclusively dedicated to porcelain was built to supply many places, but especially the court which lived in Beijing.

As a general rule, they are pieces with a white background and all decorative elements are in cobalt blue. A color made of substances brought from the West, that is why it was called “Mohammedan blue”.

This paint was applied before becoming glazed.

First, the basic materials of porcelain were mixed up, that is to say, feldspar, kaolin and aqua. This mix was molded and shaped and then it was ready to be painted. Then, it was baked in an oven at a temperature of more than 1,250 degrees, obtaining with this process the characteristic graze of these pieces.

The dragon is one of the most traditional decorative elements in the Chinese culture. It is identified with emperors and with the supremacy over its subjects.

To Mokita the elements and stories represented in the Chinese porcelain are inspirational themes, that is why we developed stamp families in cobalt blue for dishware collection exclusively.