A collection of text graphics and related works, stretching back thousands of years. Textiles, BBS-graphics, poetry, mosaic, typography, and much more. Collected by Raquel Meyers and Goto80.

Includes formats such as shift-JIS, PETSCII, ASCII, ANSI, RTTY, ATASCII, unicode, braille, xbin ...
Made for media like videotex, teletext, BBS, buildings, typewriters, clothes, textile, letterpress, toys, telidon, antiope, print, minitel

With styles such as animation, typography, mosaic, poetry, text art, χχχ, text mode, advertising, elite, kufic, sloyd

Putting the emphasis on grids, patterns, emoticons, tiles, tessellations

From ancient times and the 1700s, 1800s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s , 2000s, 2010s
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Geometric print on cotton. Unknown manufacturer. 1906.

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Geometric print on cotton. Unknown manufacturer. 1906.

The Tree of Life pattern is a pictorial style that first appeared around the turn of the 20th century and is also, referred to as a “Bird Pictorial” in the Navajo rug weaving.

Kindergarten Paper Weavings from circa 1900 (Collection Jim Linderman).

Christian Morgenstern: ”Fisches Nachtgesang”In: Galgenlieder, 1905.

Christian Morgenstern: ”Fisches Nachtgesang”
In: Galgenlieder, 1905.