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Ajrakh designs: star lattice, rosette field, trellis border in three styles

Ajrakh — A lattice of interlocking geometric cells covering the cloth, each cell edged by a fine reserved white line and holding a small trefoil, the field alternating madder red and indigo blue, the black outline printed over both so no shape loses its edge., resist and mordant block printing on both faces of cotton, myrobalan prime, gum-and-lime resist, iron-tamarind black, madder and an indigo vat

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Reading 1Lattice field
Reading 2Eight-pronged star
Reading 3Date palm rows

Ajrakh is Kutch and Sindh's double-sided resist print: a strict geometry of stars, rosettes and trellis, never a loose flower. These nine carry a star lattice, a rosette field and a trellis border through indigo-red resist, a madder ground and iron-black line. Ask for a different geometric figure and the same three resist styles carry it.

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Frequently asked questions

What size do these print at?
Each design is drawn as a seamless repeat at A3 proportions with an even margin, so it prints clean at A3 or scales to A4 or a fabric swatch.
Can I ask for a different figure, like an eight-point star?
Yes — the direction field takes any geometric figure, such as an eight-point star or a different lattice, and the same three resist styles render it.
What's the difference between the three styles?
The indigo-red resist reads as ajrakh's classic two-colour double-sided print; the madder ground shifts the base to warm red; the iron-black line style opens the same lattice to sharp black-on-white contrast.
Is this respectful of real ajrakh craft?
The set draws on the Khatri printers' Kutch and Sindh resist-dye technique as a style reference for a generated print, not a reproduction of any specific printer's or workshop's cloth, and not a claim to be hand-block-printed textile.

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.