# Cloisonné (七宝（クロワゾネ）) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.517 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/cloisonne
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Cloisonné, a technique from Vessel and Craft Techniques, ancient–.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: designing a multicolour version of a crest or a logo where colours are separated rather than blended, or building a diagram or a map in which the outline itself carries the ornament. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- Every area of colour is fenced by a thin metal line, and the lines divide the whole design without a break
- No two colours bleed into each other
- Only the lines give back the light of metal rather than of glass
- The ground is metal or porcelain, so the design wraps a curved vessel instead of sitting on a flat panel

Someone who knows this style should be able to point at each of these in the finished image.

## How to build it

- Layout and structure: Divide the entire field into closed cells, leaving no area outside a cell. The smallest cell is set by the width the line can hold
- Type and lettering: Enclose letters the way the design encloses colour. Avoid typefaces too fine to survive the width of the wire
- Material and surface: Fence with metal lines and fill each cell with a glassy colour. Keep the lines the colour of metal and never let one area of colour cross a line
- Colour: #C9A227 carries the ground, #B03A2E is the colour the style is remembered by, #1F5FA0 holds text and outlines. Read off real works, so treat them as a direction rather than a fixed palette.
- What it should feel like: technique, luxury, exhilaration

## What goes wrong

Drawing the lines as decoration without actually closing the cells lets colour escape and reduces the technique to a mere outline.

## Across the four

Keep every cue above present in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows the range this style covers rather than four versions of one picture.

## Constraints

- Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work.
- Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work.
- Produce original compositions in the general period language described above.

Full design spec: https://indexstyle.org/styles/cloisonne/design.md