Aipan art: Lakshmi's footprints, a round chowki, a swastik and lotus

Aipan, the white-on-red floor and threshold art of Kumaon, for families from Uttarakhand and beyond. The nine pictures show Lakshmi's footprints leading inward at a threshold, a round chowki for puja with a swastik at its centre, and a swastik with a large lotus. Each comes as white rice paste on red floor, white and gold on maroon canvas, or with yellow and green for a festival. Type a direction such as Diwali, and the design carries it.

• a threshold design for a doorway
• a puja space or a round chowki
• a Diwali decoration
• a canvas for a home entrance

Frequently asked questions

What do the nine pictures show?

Three designs: Lakshmi's footprints leading inward, a round chowki with lotus rings and a swastik, and a swastik with a large lotus and triangles.

How do the three grounds differ?

The floor version is white rice paste on geru red, the canvas version is white and gold on deep maroon, and the festive version adds yellow and green between the white lines on brick red.

Can I ask for a different design?

Yes. Type the change as a direction, such as Om centre or Diwali. It is a request for that look, not a promised result.

About toile

This page is a showcase and a starting point: nine samples already rendered, three readings of the pack crossed with three styles, each shown at the size and ratio it was made for. Take any of them further on the wall with a few words, or ask for all nine again under your own direction; a sign-in keeps what you make, and it is free while Toile is new. The recipe behind each sample — the subject, the style, the palette, the framing — travels with the image rather than staying private to the render: it is in the alt text of every sample and in the page's own structured data, so a search engine reads the same handles a person would.