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PINTADO: the cloth Europe banned for being too beautiful, reborn as a luxury house.
Between 1650 and 1800, painters on India's Coromandel Coast drew cotton by hand and dyed it in madder and indigo. France banned it in 1686. I trained a Recraft Style on these cloths and asked what their house would sell today.
The archive
• 8 Coromandel chintz pieces from The Met, public domain (CC0)
• 7 Kalighat paintings for a 3-carré capsule, with a second Style (Cleveland Museum of Art, Wellcome Collection)
The Style
• "Pintado, Coromandel chintz 1650–1800", trained on 9 crops
• It drew every motif: the carrés, the ship mark, the bird seal, the tree of life
The house
• Products, lookbook, mockups and posters: Nano Banana 2.1 in Recraft, from Style-made references
• Logo lockup, layouts and films: made outside Recraft
• Generic objects only, no real brands
• The bento grid follows Red Antler's Tendril format
Everything is on one Recraft canvas, in order.
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Same cures, new aches.
I found a small album of Belgian pharmacy labels from around 1890-1910 in the Wellcome Collection archive and turned three of them into a custom @recraftai Style. Then I opened a fictional shop, the Digital Age Pharmacy, which sells with 1900 confidence but treats today's ailments: Monday mornings, pointless meetings, spam, tech neck, doomscrolling.
One tired patient, one day, from 7 AM to the only prescription that really works at midnight.
MORE THEN/NOW IN THE COMMENTS! (few elements can be post here)
Project: https://www.recraft.ai/project/11570684-6d88-40be-8e32-cfdcb0a790ba
Walkthrough video: https://www.awesomescreenshot.com/video/57910993?key=dfccd7a405144bc67577006a8a5c8dae
Originals: Wellcome Collection (Pommade Ysérine, CC BY 4.0)
- Pommade Ysérine: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ugd3z3ve (CC BY 4.0, credit: Wellcome Collection)
- Cigarettes Antiasthmatiques Daturol: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/r9r39y3a (Public Domain Mark, Wellcome Collection)
- Elixir Anti-Asthmatique: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/dgm6ga52 (Wellcome Collection)
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