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Wayang kulit art: punched parchment, kayon board

Wayang — A leaf-shaped board tapering to a point, a tree filling it with a gate and a house at the base, two guardian figures with clubs, a tiger and a bull among the branches, hundreds of small punched holes describing the foliage., wayang kulit sunggingan: painted buffalo parchment with gold leaf on the ornament and fine punched perforation throughout

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Reading 1Kayon board
Reading 2Punched band
Reading 3All-over

A wayang kulit puppet is buffalo parchment punched with hundreds of small chisel holes, then painted and gilded, although the audience on the far side of the screen sees only the shadow. The kayon, the mountain-tree board, opens the play and marks every scene change. These nine render puppet figures and the kayon across three treatments — painted, gilded, and cast as shadow. Ask for a different figure — a warrior, a clown figure, a mythical bird — and the same punched-parchment structure carries it.

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Frequently asked questions

What size do these print at?
Each render is composed at a proportion suited to standard paper sizes, printing clean at A3 or scaling to A4.
Can I get a different figure, like a warrior or a mythical bird?
Yes — the direction field takes any figure, and the same punched-parchment structure renders it.
What is the kayon?
It's the mountain-tree-shaped board that opens a wayang kulit performance and marks a change of scene — rendered here as its own ornamental motif.
Is this respectful of real wayang kulit traditions?
The set draws on the Javanese wayang kulit tradition's visual technique — punched, painted and gilded parchment figures — as a style reference for a generated print, not a reproduction of any specific puppet or performance.

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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.