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Otomi patterns: deer, bird, flowering tree in three colour scales

Otomi — Deer, rabbits, birds and long-tailed lizards worked in flat satin stitch, each a solid single colour with no shading, all facing different ways and floating with no ground line, the white cotton left bare between them., flat satin-stitch embroidery in cotton floss on plain white cotton, outlines stitched, no shading

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Reading 1Floating animals
Reading 2Flowering trees
Reading 3Packed field

Otomi embroidery comes from Tenango de Doria in Hidalgo: animals and plants drawn straight onto white cotton and filled with flat satin stitch, no shading inside them and no ground beneath. These nine set a deer, a bird and a flowering tree, each at a fine, a bold and a contemporary colour scale. Ask for a different animal or plant and the same three scales 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 animal or plant?
Yes — the direction field takes any animal or plant, such as a rabbit or a bird, and the same three colour scales render it.
What's the difference between the three colour scales?
Fine keeps the satin-stitch outline thin and single-colour; bold thickens the same outline and adds a second colour; contemporary opens the whole figure to a brighter modern palette.
Is this respectful of real Otomi embroidery traditions?
The set draws on the flat satin-stitch, floating-figure technique of Otomi embroidery from Tenango de Doria, Hidalgo, as a style reference for a generated print, not a reproduction of any specific embroiderer's panel.

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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.