Digitized color images of the sun's corona taken by multispectral scanners have been available to the public for at least twelve years (Sci. Amer., 1980). After viewing images of this nature one can draw parallels between images generated by remote sensing devices and Geographic Information Systems and certain surface imaging techniques used in textiles. The visual creation of spatial storage and display devices in shibori textiles creates maplike images inspired by the pages of "Scientific American" "National Geographic" and The Cambridge Atlas of Astronomy to name a few. Images generated from digitizations of medium to high topographic data densities are a good example of an image that appears to have a direct visual corollary with images created in work in the textile medium of shibori. Much of the data contained in GIS is directly or indirectly derived from remote sensing devices (Puquet, 1990). The translation of satelite photographs into the shibori (Japanese, "to compress or squeeze") medium is an example of a non-computer, non-paper translation of information from one branch of the sciences to another. Shibori is the 1500 year old textile dye process whereby cloth is shaped by pinching, pleating, folding, stitching or wrapping and secured in those shapes by binding, knotting or clamping. The cloth is then dyed or bleached while it is bound in three-dimensional form and visually registers the shaping process used to create the pattern after it is returned to its two-dimensional which uses a type of information reduction to produce a set of complex images from a well defined model or set of processes.