The embodiment of touch is the embodiment of stain, the moment it comes in contact with the surface. Only when the transgressive substance penetrates the cloth is is marking, does touch become visible and archaeologizing it possible.
“Cloth bears the sometimes unbearable gift of memory. And its memory is exacting; it does not forget even the benign scars of the accident: red wine on a white tablecloth, water on a silk blouse, dark patches beneath arms on a humid summer day”