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Bagru designs: trellis jaal, paisley vine, mud-resist ground in three styles

Bagru — A large trellising vine covering the whole cloth, stems crossing into ogee cells, each cell holding a broad flat flower and a pair of serrated leaves, the shapes reserved pale by the mud resist against a flooded indigo ground, every edge slightly bled., hand-blocked dabu mud-resist on hand-spun cotton, alizarin red and iron black over an indigo dip

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Reading 1Trellising jaal
Reading 2Black and mustard
Reading 3Double resist

Bagru's Chhipa printers work dabu: black clay and gum pressed through a block, dusted with sawdust, so the covered ground stays pale against the dye. These nine carry a trellis jaal, a paisley vine and a mud-resist ground through dabu black, an indigo dip and a natural cream field. Ask for a different jaal or a paisley of your own and the same three dabu 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 jaal pattern?
Yes — the direction field takes any trellis or vine layout you name, and the same three dabu styles render it.
What's the difference between the three styles?
The dabu black reads as bagru's classic mud-resist print on a dark ground; the indigo dip shifts the dye to blue; the natural cream style keeps the resisted ground bare against a single warm colour.
Is this respectful of real bagru craft?
The set draws on the Chhipa printers' Bagru mud-resist 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.

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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.