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Tenugui designs: bean dot, sea wave, summer goldfish in three styles

Tenugui — Rows of small rounded dots, each with a slightly ragged edge where the dye spread under the resist, set in a straight grid a thumb apart, indigo on white, the corners softened so no two dots are quite alike., pour-dyeing through a paste resist on cotton, the colour going right through the cloth

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Reading 1Bean dots
Reading 2Goldfish
Reading 3Sea waves

Tenugui is the Japanese hand towel as a printed field: pour-dyeing sends colour through a paste resist so the pattern reads the same on both faces, the cloth left cut and unhemmed. These nine carry a bean dot, a sea wave and a summer goldfish through pour-dyed through-print, seigaiha wave repeat and plain cotton ground. Ask for a different seasonal motif and the same three print styles carry it.

  • a fabric or wallpaper swatch
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  • a home decor print
  • a stationery print

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 seasonal motif?
Yes — the direction field takes any motif you name, and the same three print styles render it through the pour-dyed ground.
What's the difference between the three styles?
The bean-dot style keeps the classic small repeating scatter; the sea-wave style renders seigaiha's nested arcs; the summer-goldfish style opens the pattern to a bright seasonal figure.
Is this respectful of real tenugui craft?
The set draws on the Japanese pour-dye through-printing technique as a style reference for a generated print, not a reproduction of any specific dyer's or workshop's cloth, and not a claim to be hand-dyed cotton.

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.