toile

/phulkari · pattern · 3 readings

Phulkari designs: bagh field, chope border, sainchi scene in three styles

Phulkari — Ground completely covered by long floss-silk darning stitches worked in counted blocks, gold and orange lozenges stepping across a base cloth that never shows, each block laid at a right angle to its neighbour so the light shifts between them., floss-silk darn stitch counted on coarse hand-spun khaddar cotton, worked from the reverse

More like this

the whole catalog →
Quatrefoil9 samples · patternQuilting fabric9 samples · patternRetro 70s florals9 samples · patternRug designs9 samples · pattern

all 9 samples — three readings, three styles ↓

Reading 1Covered ground
Reading 2Village scene
Reading 3Mirrored bands

Phulkari is Punjab's darn stitch: floss silk worked from the wrong side of coarse khaddar, counted so all the sheen lies one way. These nine carry a bagh field, a chope border and a sainchi village scene through dense floss-silk darn, bare khaddar ground and shifting sheen colour. Ask for a different village scene and the same three stitch styles carry it.

  • a fabric or wallpaper swatch
  • a textile design reference board
  • a cultural-studies handout
  • a home decor print
  • an embroidery or sewing reference

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 scene, like a wedding procession?
Yes — the direction field takes any village scene you name, and the same three stitch styles render it.
What's the difference between the three styles?
The bagh field shows the stitch covering the whole cloth edge to edge; the chope border keeps the stitch to a framing band; the sainchi style opens the ground to narrative figures worked in the same counted darn.
Is this respectful of real phulkari craft?
The set draws on Punjab's counted darn-stitch embroidery 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.

About toile

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.