Printing komon, or small all-over repeat patterns.  This particular design is wa sarasa, “wa” standing for Japanese, and “Sarasa” being the Japanese name for Indian block printed cottons. The printing method is the same as katazome; above, the katagami, or paper stencil, is cut for one color.

Images from Project Japan.

Katagami, the stencils for the katazome dyeing technique, are works of art themselves.

The stencils are made from layers of mulberry paper treated with persimmon tannin and used to stencil rice-based resist paste over the fabric before dyeing.

These examples have all been sold by Sri.