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Kashmiri paisley designs: flowering buta, bowed boteh, curled tip in three styles

Kashmiri paisley — A single flowering plant standing upright — a mounded root, a slim stem, a crown of five distinct blossoms with their leaves — the early form before the tip bent, drawn in fine coloured wool on a natural ground and repeated in even rows., kani twill-tapestry in fine pashmina wool, colour changed bobbin by bobbin, no floats behind

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Reading 1Standing plant
Reading 2Curled cone
Reading 3Interlocked cones

The Kashmir shawl's buta is a flowering plant that straightened, then bowed, then curled its tip — woven in twill-tapestry on kani bobbins or worked in sozni needle on pashmina. These nine carry a flowering buta, a bowed boteh and a curled tip through kani twill-tapestry, sozni needlework and shawl colour. Ask for a different bend in the plant 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 curl or bend in the plant?
Yes — the direction field takes any variation you name, and the same three weave styles render it.
What's the difference between the three styles?
The kani twill-tapestry style shows the buta as it's woven on the loom; the sozni needlework style shows it as fine hand embroidery on pashmina; the shawl-colour style opens the same figure to a bolder dyed ground.
Is this respectful of real kashmiri shawl craft?
The set draws on the Kashmir shawl's kani and sozni buta technique as a style reference for a generated print, not a reproduction of any specific weaver's or workshop's shawl, and not a claim to be hand-woven pashmina.

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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.