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Huichol patterns: peyote flower, deer, radiating sun in three colour fields

Huichol — A many-petalled disc seen from directly above, its petals radiating in even segments from a small centre, each segment outlined by a line of pressed yarn and filled with a second colour, the discs set in a wide grid., wool yarn pressed line by line into a board coated with beeswax and pine resin, every shape outlined then filled

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Reading 1Peyote flower
Reading 2Deer and maize
Reading 3Zigzag field

Huichol, or Wixárika, design runs from the votive tablet with a hole at its centre to the twentieth-century yarn painting: wool or glass beads pressed one line at a time into beeswax and pine resin, colour assigned rather than chosen. These nine set a peyote flower, a deer and a radiating sun, each in three pressed-yarn colour fields. Ask for a different figure and the same three fields 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 figure?
Yes — the direction field takes any figure, such as an eagle or a scorpion, and the same three colour fields render it.
What's the difference between the three colour fields?
Each field assigns a different set of pressed-yarn colours to the same figure, from an earth-toned traditional set to a saturated modern one.
Is this respectful of real Wixárika/Huichol traditions?
The set draws on the pressed-yarn and votive-tablet technique of Wixárika (Huichol) art as a style reference for a generated pattern, not a reproduction of any specific artist's yarn painting.

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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.