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Kantha designs: centre lotus, corner paisley, rippled stitch field in three styles

Kantha — A many-petalled lotus at the middle of the cloth, its petals worked in concentric rings of running stitch, ripples of stitching radiating outward across the whole ground, the layered cotton puckering slightly between every line., running-stitch quilting through layered old cotton sari cloth, threads pulled from the borders

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Reading 1Centre lotus
Reading 2Curled paisley
Reading 3Folk figures

Kantha layers worn saris and holds them with a running stitch that quilts and draws at once, rippling the cloth as it goes. These nine carry a centre lotus, a corner paisley and a rippled stitch field through running-stitch quilt line, layered sari colour and household motif. Ask for a different remembered motif and the same three stitch 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 centre motif, like a fish or a tree?
Yes — the direction field takes any household motif you name, and the same three stitch styles render it.
What's the difference between the three styles?
The centre-lotus style keeps the classic single motif at the middle of a rippled field; the corner-paisley style moves the design to the edges; the rippled-stitch style spreads the running-stitch texture across the whole ground.
Is this respectful of real kantha craft?
The set draws on Bengal and Bangladesh's running-stitch quilting technique as a style reference for a generated print, not a reproduction of any specific embroiderer's or workshop's cloth, and not a claim to be hand-stitched 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.