Certificates of authenticity for textile art
Textile and fibre works are dimensional, drape differently in every installation, and are easily under-documented. Attesian gives a textile work a signed certificate and an append-only provenance record so its authorship and history are fixed from the start.
Register a work and it receives its genesis event and certificate. Because a photograph of textile work varies with how it is hung, identity rests mainly on the registry and attestation.
The genesis event pins authorship before the work enters exhibitions or sales.
Installation, loan, and ownership events are appended over time and never rewritten.
Attestation and the registry carry the identity, with the image as supporting evidence.
How image fingerprinting applies
A textile work photographs differently depending on how it hangs, so the perceptual image fingerprint is a soft signal rather than a strict uniqueness check. Attesian relies on the registry constraint and attestation for identity.
Questions
- Is textile art harder to certify than a painting?
- The certificate and provenance work the same way; only the emphasis shifts. For dimensional media, attestation and the registry record matter more than the image fingerprint, and the record is honest about that.