# Adire × Batik — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=adire+batik
# Adire carries the structure. Batik appear as accents, each further back than the last.
# Style descriptors only. Never imitates a specific artist, studio, brand or work.

An original image that takes its structure from Adire (Technique, 19th century–) and its accent from Batik (Technique, traditional–present). Structural cues: Indigo-and-white resist patterns; Cassava-paste hand painting; Grid-divided imagery; A sign system holding proverbs. Accent cues, used sparingly: Crackle of the wax resist; The canting's line; Layered indigo and soga brown; A semantic pattern system. Composition: Grid the cloth and rotate fields so repetition never sits still. Type and lettering: Treat each sign as a unit of proverb, one to a field. Let one material quality come from the second style: Wax resist, then layered indigo and brown, washed keeping the crackle. Mood: Intimacy, Calm, Trust, Luxury. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.

# Where the two fight
# - Both belong to Textile Traditions, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.
# - Two techniques rather than two looks. Decide which one runs last in the process, because that is the one that will show.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - Adire: Repeating the motifs as pattern without knowing what they say breaks the system of proverbs and leaves only indigo decoration.
# - Batik: Using the patterns as decoration detached from meaning ignores who may wear them and on what occasion, which turns the cloth discourteous.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/adire/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/batik/design.md