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Suzani designs: moon disc, split pomegranate, tendril field in three styles

Suzani — Large filled discs the size of a plate, each ringed by a band of small leaves and holding a rosette of petals, set in a wide grid with curling tendrils joining them, the silk laid in long couched floats that catch the light., silk floss chain-stitched and couched on hand-woven cotton, worked in strips and rejoined

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Reading 1Moon discs
Reading 2Pomegranates
Reading 3Vine and carnation

Suzani is a bride's embroidery from Bukhara, Nurata and Shakhrisabz: drawn on cotton by one hand, cut into strips, worked by several women, then rejoined so the seams never quite match. These nine carry a moon disc, a split pomegranate and a tendril field through strip-pieced embroidery, rejoined seams and floral medallion colour. Ask for a different fruit or vine motif and the same three embroidery 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 fruit or vine motif?
Yes — the direction field takes any motif you name, and the same three embroidery styles render it.
What's the difference between the three styles?
The moon-disc style keeps the large round medallion centred; the split-pomegranate style breaks the fruit motif into paired halves; the tendril-field style spreads the vine across the whole ground.
Is this respectful of real suzani craft?
The set draws on the Bukhara, Nurata and Shakhrisabz embroidery tradition as a style reference for a generated print, not a reproduction of any specific embroiderer's or family's cloth, and not a claim to be hand-embroidered 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.