Getting a picture onto clothing once meant literally painting it onto the fabric. Then the 20th century brought industrial screening and print techniques to put works of art onto clothes. Now, thanks to Japanese printing technology, we get the best of both worlds: printed fabric with an artist’s “handcrafted” touch.

These new techniques are used by the aptly titled brand Gallery. The Gallery printing factory seeks out artists, then develops techniques that will best express their works on fabric—much like a gallery curator would account for lighting and exhibition positioning for a work of art. The current collection is a line of high quality t-shirts featuring the work of three Japanese artists: sculptor Akio Omori, collage artist Shigeki Iwama and silk-screener Takashikondo.

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