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Yuzen designs: gilded floral, shaded leaf, kimono panel in three styles

Yuzen — Chrysanthemums, plum and pine arranged in fan-shaped clusters, every shape fenced by a fine white resist line, the petals filled in graded colour and touched with gold leaf at the centres, small ribbons of stylised water running between the clusters., freehand paste-resist dyeing on silk, colours brushed inside a squeezed rice-paste line, gold leaf at the centres

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Reading 1Court flowers
Reading 2Edge shading
Reading 3Flowing water

Yuzen fences each colour area with a rice-paste line squeezed from a paper cone, so colours sit side by side without bleeding — the Kyoto manner gilds, the Kanazawa manner shades from the outer edge inward. These nine carry a gilded floral, a shaded leaf and a kimono panel through paste-lined gilding, edge-shaded colour and full kimono layout. Ask for a different floral motif and the same three brush 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 floral motif?
Yes — the direction field takes any floral motif you name, and the same three brush styles render it.
What's the difference between the three styles?
The gilded-floral style shows the Kyoto manner's gold-touched line; the shaded-leaf style shows Kanazawa's edge-to-centre gradient, insect-eaten leaf included; the kimono-panel style lays the motif out across a full garment field.
Is this respectful of real yuzen craft?
The set draws on the Kyoto and Kanazawa paste-resist dyeing technique as a style reference for a generated print, not a reproduction of any specific dyer's or workshop's kimono, and not a claim to be hand-painted silk.

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.