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Pareo patterns: frond silhouette, scattered leaf, leaf border in three grounds

Pareo — Fern fronds, palm leaves and breadfruit leaves left as white silhouettes on a saturated red ground, each leaf's lobes and veins caught exactly where it lay, the dye darkest along the leaf margins where it pooled., fresh leaves laid on cotton, dye misted over them and the cloth set in the sun, the leaves lifted to leave a silhouette

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Reading 1Leaf silhouettes
Reading 2Tiare and hibiscus
Reading 3Banded layout

The oldest pareu were white leaves on a red or blue ground, made by laying fresh fronds on the cotton, misting dye over them, and lifting the leaves off after hours in the sun. These nine set a single frond silhouette, a scattered leaf field and a bordered leaf panel, each on a red, a blue and a contemporary ground. Ask for a different leaf silhouette and the same three grounds carry it.

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  • a home decor accent
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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 leaf silhouette?
Yes — the direction field takes a different leaf, such as a banana leaf or a hibiscus, and the same three grounds render it.
What's the difference between the three grounds?
Red ground and blue ground keep the classic white-leaf-on-colour contrast; contemporary ground opens the same silhouette technique to a modern shade.
Is this a hand-laid pareu made by a specific artisan?
No — the set draws on the frond-laid, sun-misted silhouette technique behind traditional Polynesian pareu as a style reference for a generated pattern, not a reproduction of any specific artisan's cloth.

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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.