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Jamdani designs: floating flower, white figure, gold figure in three styles

Jamdani — Small diamond-shaped flowers in a close diagonal lattice across fine grey muslin, each built from a few floats of untwisted white cotton, the ground visible through the weave between them, the figures softer at the edges than the warp lines., discontinuous supplementary weft worked by hand into fine cotton muslin, the motifs floated not printed

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Reading 3Net field

Jamdani builds its figure as a discontinuous supplementary weft on Dhaka muslin, each motif set by hand with a bamboo point while the loom waits. These nine carry a floating flower, a white figure and a gold figure through fine discontinuous weft, grey muslin ground and hand-picked detail. Ask for a different floating motif and the same three weave 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 floating motif, like a vine?
Yes — the direction field takes any motif you name, and the same three weave styles render it floating on the grey ground.
What's the difference between the three styles?
The white-figure style keeps jamdani's classic tone-on-tone muslin look; the gold-figure style raises the motif in metallic contrast; the floating-flower style spaces single motifs loosely rather than in a dense field.
Is this respectful of real jamdani craft?
The set draws on Dhaka's discontinuous-weft muslin-weaving technique as a style reference for a generated print, not a reproduction of any specific weaver's or workshop's cloth, and not a claim to be hand-woven muslin.

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.