Craquelure

iOS app by Shadowfetch · App Store ID 6792956354 · iOS

Craquelure is a jigsaw puzzle built around 730 genuine works of art, every one of them released to the public domain by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Not stock photographs. Not AI images. Actual museum scans of actual objects, each one bundled at full working resolution and each one carrying its real catalogue record — artist, date, medium, collection, accession number.

Twelve Rooms

The collection is arranged the way a museum is, by room:

Dutch Golden Age · Ukiyo-e · Botanical Plates · Maps & Views · Mughal & Persian · Ink & Scroll · Impressionism & After · The American Wing · Old Masters · Master Drawings · Early Photographs · Pattern & Ornament

Seventeenth-century Dutch interiors. Hokusai and Hiroshige. Engraved flora from the great herbals. Sea charts drawn before anyone had seen the coast from above. Jewelled folios from Persian manuscripts. Hudson River School landscapes. Silver prints from the first century of photography. And an entire room of textile and ornament plates with no horizon and no focal point, for people who think they are good at this.

The Cut

Choose anything from a twelve-piece warm-up to a two-thousand-piece afternoon. Two cut families: Classic, the traditional knob-and-socket die cut, and Organic, hand-cut lobes with no repeated shape, where you have to read the picture instead of the outline.

Pieces have weight. They lag a little under your finger, carry momentum when you flick them, and land with a wooden knock when they seat. Two loose pieces that belong together snap into a block you can then drag as one — the way a real jigsaw actually works.

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Craquelure · App Store ID 6792956354 · Published by Shadowfetch · shadowfetch.com