Hmong Paj Ntaub (Flower Cloth)

Paj ntaub — "flower cloth" — is the Hmong women's art of cutting geometric mazes into a top fabric and stitching the folded edges onto a contrasting indigo backing. Spider webs, elephant-foot crosses, snail spirals, and mountain zigzags encode clan identity and cosmology in tight rotational symmetry. After 1975, refugee camps birthed the story-cloth subgenre: entire migration journeys embroidered as naive cartographic scenes.

This system channels that highland-loud palette — hot fuchsia applique on deep indigo ground, emerald and saffron accents, mountain-chevron borders — into a digital vocabulary of stepped-edge cards, cross-stitch textures, and cartouche buttons. Every surface carries the weight of hand-cut cloth.

花布（paj ntaub）是苗族女性以反贴花技法在靛蓝底布上剪裁蜘蛛网、象脚十字、蜗牛螺旋与山形锯齿等几何纹样的纺织艺术，承载氏族身份与宇宙观。1975 年后难民营催生了故事布——将老挝到泰国营地的迁徙之路以朴素地图式场景刺绣记录。

本设计系统提取高地织物的浓烈色彩——靛蓝底上的亮桃红贴花、翠绿与藏红花黄点缀、山形人字纹边框——转化为阶梯边缘卡片、十字绣纹理与徽章按钮的数字语言，每一个界面都保留手工剪布的质感。