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Patola designs: elephant-parrot figure, geometric medallion, serrated border in three styles

Patola — Rows of elephants with raised trunks alternating with standing women holding flowers, every outline stepped and serrated by the resist-dyed thread, the figures reserved in white and yellow on a deep red field, a parrot set between each pair., double-ikat silk, warp and weft resist-tied and dyed before weaving, every figure edge stepped

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Reading 1Women and elephants
Reading 2Peepal leaf
Reading 3Stepped grid

Patola is Patan's double ikat: warp and weft both tied and dyed to the design before weaving, aligned until the figures resolve. These nine carry an elephant-parrot figure, a geometric medallion and a serrated border through double-ikat blur, silk-sheen colour and a tight woven repeat. Ask for a different figure and the same three ikat 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 figure, like a bird or a flower?
Yes — the direction field takes any figure you name, and the same three ikat styles render it with the serrated double-ikat edge.
What's the difference between the three styles?
The double-ikat blur shows patola's signature soft-edged figure from tied warp and weft; the geometric medallion reads as a more graphic woven layout; the serrated border keeps the figure sharp against a tight edge repeat.
Is this respectful of real patola craft?
The set draws on Patan's double-ikat 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 silk.

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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.