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Sanganeri designs: buti sprig, running vine, all-over floral in three styles

Sanganeri — Single flower heads no wider than a thumbnail set in straight rows a finger apart on bleached white cotton, each built from an outline block and two fills — a red petal ring, a green leaf pair, a yellow centre., direct hand block printing on bleached white cotton calico, outline block then two fill blocks, natural pastel dyes

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Reading 1Small buti
Reading 2Running vine
Reading 3Fine net

Sanganeri direct printing keeps its motifs small and evenly set on bleached white calico: an outline block struck first, fill blocks after. These nine carry a buti sprig, a running vine and an all-over floral through fine outline, pastel fill and bare white ground. Ask for a different small motif and the same three print 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 small motif?
Yes — the direction field takes any buti or sprig you name, and the same three print styles render it.
What's the difference between the three styles?
The fine outline reads as sanganeri's struck black line before colour; the pastel fill adds the soft second-pass colour blocks; the bleached white ground keeps the calico bare between sparsely set motifs.
Is this respectful of real sanganeri craft?
The set draws on the Sanganer direct-printing technique as a style reference for a generated print, not a reproduction of any specific printer's or workshop's cloth, and not a claim to be hand-block-printed 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.