Atlas Fragments is a limited-run archival patch cloth created for makers, repairers, travellers, garment builders, and anyone drawn to the visual language of old maps.

This 25” × 25” sheet features a curated collage of public-domain cartographic fragments, celestial diagrams, antique world maps, island plans, mountain surveys, astronomical charts, and expedition documents, reassembled into a single large-format fabric panel and printed onto heavyweight organic cotton canvas.

Where Edo Fragments pulls from woodblock prints and the visual world of Japanese archive culture, Atlas Fragments is built from the language of navigation: coastlines, globes, mountain lines, star charts, measured grids, old place names, compass points, survey marks, and the obsessive beauty of people trying to understand where they are in the world.

It is designed to be cut, frayed, layered, repaired, patched, and reworked. Each piece becomes part of your own garment’s story — whether stitched into denim, jackets, bags, aprons, trousers, fieldwear, coveralls, or experimental handmade pieces.

Designed for Use Across Any Project

Atlas Fragments is intentionally open-ended. Use it to:

Add map-like detail to jackets, trousers, bags, and workwear
Create custom patches for denim, canvas, and utility garments
Reinforce worn areas through visible mending
Add expedition, travel, and archive energy to handmade builds
Cut out small labels, chart fragments, map panels, or larger statement patches
Layer old-world navigation graphics into new garments

The 300gsm organic cotton canvas is structured enough to sew cleanly, but still softens and frays beautifully with wear. Leave the edges raw for a broken-in field-relic finish, or stitch them down neatly for a more controlled patchwork detail.

Material & Print Details

Fabric: 100% organic cotton canvas
Weight: 300gsm
Sheet size: 25” × 25” / 63.5 × 63.5 cm
Finish: Hand-cut sheet edge
Surface: Soft, structured, and ideal for patchwork
Use: Cut-out patches, visible mending, garment repair, bags, denim, jackets, trousers, aprons, and workwear

Each sheet contains multiple usable fragments in different sizes, colours, and shapes, giving you the freedom to decide how each section is cut and placed.

The Artwork

The imagery in Atlas Fragments comes from public-domain map and science archives: antique maps, celestial charts, topographical surveys, globes, diagrams, island plans, and printed documents connected to geography, navigation, archaeology, astronomy, and field study.

Rather than reproducing a single map, this sheet treats cartography as a material language. Coastlines become patches. Mountain surveys become repair panels. Celestial diagrams become garment labels. A globe becomes a pocket detail. A fragment of Stonehenge becomes a stitched relic.

This is not just a printed fabric sheet. It is a cuttable archive.

The Library of Congress Geography and Map Division notes that its digital collections include historical cartography and that more than a million images from its historical collections are available online. This wider public-domain map culture is exactly the world this sheet is drawing from: the old attempt to measure, name, diagram, and understand the earth. 

Visual Credit & Context Notes

This sheet contains a curated arrangement of public-domain cartographic, celestial, archaeological, and geographical fragments. Exact source titles vary across the collage, but the visible material includes:

Armillary sphere / astronomical instrument engraving
The upper-left fragment shows an old scientific illustration of an armillary sphere or globe-like astronomical instrument, surrounded by circular diagrams. It brings the sheet into the world of early astronomy, navigation, measurement, and celestial mapping.

European / regional map fragment
The curved map section near the top left/centre shows a coloured regional map, likely from an old atlas or geographical plate. It gives the sheet a torn-page archive quality and works well as a large patch area.

Island / territory map fragment
The upper central map shows a coloured island or territorial map with coastline, grid marks, and inset notation. This kind of fragment gives the sheet its expedition-document energy.

Double hemisphere celestial or world chart
The upper-right fragment shows two circular map forms, similar to celestial or hemispheric charts. These circular diagrams are useful as cut-out patches because they feel like badges, compass marks, or navigational symbols.

Plan of Easter Island fragment
The left-middle fragment is visibly titled “Plan of Easter Island.” This connects the sheet to exploration, island surveying, archaeology, and historical mapping of remote places.

Circular zodiac / astronomical calculation diagram
The round diagram with surrounding script and segmented markings feels like an astronomical, calendrical, or navigational chart. It gives the sheet a more esoteric, technical archive feel.

Decorative title-page / cartographic bookplate fragment
The central illustrated title-page panel, with figures and a globe, references the decorative frontispieces often found in old atlases and geographical works. It adds a book-object feeling rather than just flat maps.

Japan / island chain map fragment
The pale blue vertical map section appears to show a long island chain, possibly Japanese or Pacific-region cartography. It adds water, coastline, and route-map character to the sheet.

Mountain / relief survey fragment
The large right-side fragment shows terrain, shaded relief, contour-like landform drawing, and route/plan markings. This reads as field geography: walking routes, mountains, passes, valleys, and survey work.

Stonehenge document fragment
The lower central-left fragment is visibly titled “STONEHENGE” and appears connected to a Ministry of Works publication or site document. This brings archaeological fieldwork into the sheet and gives one of the strongest standalone patch zones.

World map / double hemisphere fragment
The lower central map uses the classic double-hemisphere world format, one of the most recognisable historical map layouts. It works perfectly as a larger cut-out or back-pocket sized patch.

Celestial northern sky fragment
The lower-right blue circular chart is titled in German as “Nördlicher Sternenhimmel,” meaning Northern Starry Sky or Northern Celestial Hemisphere. This adds a strong astronomy/star-map layer to the sheet.

Cosmological / orbital diagram fragment
The diagram beneath the blue star map shows orbital paths or a solar-system style arrangement. It expands the sheet from earth maps into sky maps, giving the design a larger “earth and heavens” feeling.

Mountain island / organised nature fragment
The large lower-left landscape diagram reads as a scientific or speculative geographical illustration, showing a mountain/island form extending across a gridded plane. It gives the sheet a surreal expedition-map quality.

Public-domain acknowledgement
The works are used as public-domain archival material and reinterpreted as a contemporary patch cloth for garment making. Public-domain map archives, including institutions and resources such as the Library of Congress and Public Domain Review, preserve and surface historical maps, celestial charts, scientific diagrams, and cartographic works for modern study and reuse.

Limited Physical Stock

Atlas Fragments is a limited physical product.

The first Workwear release will only include a very small number of sheets. Once the first run sells out, it will not be immediately restocked.

Each sheet is printed, handled, and packed as a material object — not a digital file, not a print-on-demand product, and not a mass-produced trim.

Pair It With the Workwear Series

Atlas Fragments has been designed to sit naturally alongside the Roughcut Workwear Series, especially on denim, canvas, duck cloth, hickory, aprons, jackets, carpenter trousers, dungarees, bags, and coveralls.

It works especially well on garments that already feel practical, repaired, travelled, or field-worn.

But it is not limited to Roughcut patterns.

Cut it up. Stitch it down. Patch the knees. Cover a pocket. Repair a bag. Add a map to something that has already been somewhere.