Warmer by nature
Sri Lankan textiles recorded a warmer colour profile, with a warm-cool score of 0.178 versus −0.111 in the Japanese set.
CROSS-CULTURAL TEXTILE ANALYSIS
Textiles have
a design DNA.
JASPER maps the visual language of two textile traditions, turning colour, texture, motif and symmetry into evidence for design exchange.
WHY THIS MATTERS
Craft knowledge deserves a
future-facing vocabulary.
For Sri Lankan handloom artisans, international relevance can coexist with cultural integrity. This research establishes a measurable vocabulary for understanding what Japanese and Sri Lankan textiles express differently, and where they can speak to each other.
OBSERVED DIFFERENCES
As reported in the published paper. A full 2,000-image re-run of the open code, reconciling the paper with the repository’s earlier 100-image pilot, is in progress.
Similar saturation
The published comparison found no meaningful difference in average saturation: 92.6 for Sri Lankan textiles and 90.7 for Japanese samples.
Different pattern logic
Texture complexity, texture contrast and colour variance separate the two collections; symmetry did not differ significantly.
FROM WEAVE TO EVIDENCE
Every image becomes a field of signals.
JASPER turns visual character into an open analysis pipeline, making cultural pattern language legible without reducing it to a single score.
View the code- 01
Collect
Japanese and Sri Lankan textile specimens form the comparative corpus.
- 02
Extract
The code extracts 52 features (the paper reports a 44-feature set) covering colour, complexity, texture, symmetry and geometry.
- 03
Compare
Welch’s t-tests, effect sizes and correction identify meaningful signals.
- 04
Translate
Evidence becomes market-fit guidance and pathways for textile design.
CULTURAL SIGNAL EXPLORER
Two traditions.
Distinct visual voices.
LK / 02
warm / varied
Warmer colour and greater visual variation form the Sri Lankan signature in the published comparison; average saturation was similar.
AVG. SATURATION (PAPER)92.6
PUBLICATION FIGURES
Results you can inspect.
The study is open for reading, testing and extending. Browse the figures, source code and image dataset.
OPEN RESEARCH