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Guatemalan jaspe patterns: blurred bird, diamond, stripe in three colourways

Guatemalan jaspe — Wide zigzag bands whose edges dissolve into feathered dashes, running across a dark ground, the bands separated by fine plain stripes, the blur heaviest where two dye colours meet along a tie., warp and weft ikat on cotton woven on a treadle loom, the skeins resist-tied before dyeing

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Reading 1Blurred zigzag
Reading 2Surfacing figures
Reading 3Joining seam

Highland Guatemala's jaspe ties skeins before dyeing, so the figure surfaces blurred once the cloth is woven, used above all for the wrapped skirt, whose panels are joined by a hand-stitched randa seam. These nine set a blurred bird, a blurred diamond and a blurred stripe, each in three colourways. Ask for a different blurred figure and the same three colourways carry it.

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Frequently asked questions

What size do these print at?
Each pattern is drawn at A3 proportions with an even margin, so it prints clean at A3 or scales to A4.
Can I ask for a different blurred figure?
Yes — the direction field takes a different figure and the same three colourways render it.
What's the difference between the three colourways?
Each colourway keeps the same resist-blur softness and shifts only the dyed ground, from a deep traditional set to a brighter modern one.
Is this respectful of real Guatemalan Maya jaspe traditions?
The set draws on the resist-tied, blurred-figure weaving technique of highland Guatemalan jaspe as a style reference for a generated pattern, not a reproduction of any specific weaver's skirt panel.

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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.