A specimen, then a plate
A botanical monograph does not photograph its subject and print the photograph. It draws the subject, and the drawing is the record: the gills that matter are the ones the illustrator decided mattered. Plate No. 01 is drawn from the archive's own gill macro. What survives the translation is structure — the fan under the cap, the footing on the table, the ruled margin that says this was studied rather than found.
Why not the photograph
A photograph printed on cloth arrives as a rectangle carrying its own background. It sits over the garment instead of on it. That is the clearest signal an object came off a queue rather than out of a studio, and it is the reason the first capsule is line work in one ink.
What these objects are for
A shirt is not an argument. The maxim is an instruction to the person wearing it, set the way a caption is set — small, numbered, and beneath the thing it describes. Nothing in this study is for sale yet; the objects are recorded here so the record exists before the transaction does.