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Brocade pattern: gold, silver, floral in three colourways

Brocade — Small raised ornaments the size of a lentil in tight rows, each built from visible metallic threads sitting proud of the woven ground, the light catching along their ridges and the ground weave visible between., brocade repeat, ornaments raised in a supplementary metallic weft over a matte woven ground, individual threads visible in the relief, light catching along every ridge, high metallic lustre over a matte silk

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Reading 1Ditsy
Reading 2Medium
Reading 3Large

Brocade is a supplementary weft carried over the ground: the ornament sits proud of the cloth, catching light on its raised threads, often in metal. These nine hold a gold-thread reading, a silver-thread reading and a floral ornament, the relief doing the drawing in each. Ask for a different ornament motif and the same raised-thread grammar carries it.

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Frequently asked questions

What size do these print at?
Each brocade field is a seamless repeat at A3 proportions, printing clean at A4 or scaling to fabric yardage.
Can I get a different ornament motif?
Yes — name a different motif, and the same raised metal-thread reading renders it.
What's the difference between the three colourways?
Gold carries the ornament in warm metallic thread; silver runs the same relief in cool metallic thread; floral keeps the raised-thread technique but swaps the ornament for a botanical figure.
Is this a real woven brocade or a flat printed image of one?
It's a flat generated print that references the relief and light-catching quality of a real supplementary-weft weave, not a photographic scan of actual woven cloth.

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.