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I built a digital tool rooted in two real craft traditions. It's called Indikon.
The first: hand block printing centuries-old Indian craft where artisans carve wooden blocks, dip them in natural dye, and press them onto fabric.
The second: texture hunting , a practice where people press soft clay onto surfaces, lift the impression, and carry a pattern home with them. Like a rubbing, but tactile. Like collecting, but physical.
Indikon is the digital version of both.
Built entirely in @Figma Make, with the motif library generated in Figma Weave real carved Indian wooden block stamps translated into flat ink impressions using Flux Canny Pro. Every motif in the library came from a real object.
Here's how it works: press real block-print motifs onto a canvas. Scan your clay impressions or any real-world texture a cracked wall, a carved gate, a sari border ink it in natural dye colors, and stamp it alongside your carved motifs. Two craft traditions, one surface.
Your composition becomes a seamless tileable repeat the exact format a textile printer would need. Save it to your Indi-Journal, a living sketchbook canvas where print cards, field notes, and sketches accumulate the way a real sketchbook does.
The thing I kept asking while building: does this feel like block printing and clay impressions, or does it feel like software?
Indikon - from sketchbook to swatch.
Made for the @Contra x Figma Makeathon #ConfigMakeathon
TRY IT😊
https://www.figma.com/make/zZk3xstsOVJBnwmuM9vXOS/Indikon-by-Surbhi?t=VdkPEmZAPvDBMqJh-20&fullscreen=1
https://x.com/surbhi_nwskr03/status/2067861496500281762
Posted on X check it out!
Check out the full screen view below!!
https://www.figma.com/make/zZk3xstsOVJBnwmuM9vXOS/Indikon-by-Surbhi?p=f&t=FGFi1HGlwcPCS0DJ-0&fullscreen=1
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Quick update on my Config Makeathon submission
My X (Twitter) account got automatically suspended right after I posted my submission thread for the Figma Config Makeathon .I've submitted an appeal and I'm hoping it resolves soon.
My project, Indikon, is still fully up on Figma...
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