菱 Hishi· Indigo 藍
Indigo 藍 colorway · Japanese pattern wallpaper
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About the Indigo 藍 colorway
Indigo (ai) is the defining color of Japanese textiles. Cheap, hard-wearing and slightly antibacterial, aizome-dyed indigo clothed everyone from farmers to samurai, and visitors once dubbed it 'Japan blue'.
About Hishi
Hishi is a lattice of slim diamonds (rhombi) derived from the leaf of the water caltrop.
The diamond is one of the oldest motifs in Japanese design, found on Jomon pottery and developed through the Heian aristocracy into many variants such as hanabishi (flower diamonds) and matsukawabishi. It often signalled noble status.
Set it as your wallpaper
- Open the design in the editor and tune its colors.
- Recolor the ground and pattern, then add your own photo as the background.
- Download the PNG and set it as your wallpaper (Settings → Wallpaper on iPhone, or “Set as wallpaper” on Android).
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