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Madras check pattern: hand-loomed, faded, bold in three readings

Madras — A fine madras at shirting scale, bands from one to three millimetres in half a dozen colours crossing unevenly, the dye bleeding slightly at every edge so no line is quite crisp., madras repeat, bands of unequal width in vegetable-dyed colours crossing in no fixed sett, every edge bleeding a thread or two, hand-loom slubs left in the weave, deep natural dyes with a heavy bleed

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Reading 1Ditsy
Reading 2Medium
Reading 3Large

Madras is a hand-loomed cotton check where the stripes cross in no fixed sett and the colour bleeds a little after washing. These nine keep that irregularity in a true hand-loomed reading, a faded wash-worn version and a bolder saturated take. Ask for a different colour family and the same uneven bands carry it.

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Frequently asked questions

What size do these print at?
Each check is a seamless repeat drawn at A3 proportions, so it scales cleanly from A4 to fabric yardage.
Can I get different stripe colours?
Yes — the direction field takes any colour family, and the same irregular stripe widths carry it through.
What's the difference between the three readings?
Hand-loomed keeps crisp vegetable-dye colour and true irregularity; faded softens the palette toward a wash-worn look; bold saturates the colours for a stronger, more graphic check.
Is this a real madras textile or just a print pattern?
Madras is a genuine hand-loomed south Indian cotton weave; this set draws on its irregular stripe grammar as a style reference for a flat generated print, not a reproduction of any specific mill's cloth.

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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.