WOW!

 I'm very pleased (remember I'm a Mid-westerner) that people want to articipate in the challenge.  I hope everyone shares lots of photos, process and results, and we all learn a lot.

One reason I chose maki-age is that it can produce both patterns, my personal interest, and images.  So do what ever puts a buzz in your bonnet. 

All these images are from Chinese Traditional, worth looking at more there. 

Would you make these for $15.50? but that is another topic, not ours.

First I notice that the indigo background is deep and smooth in color-- a nice contrast to the patterned areas.  Also other techniques are combined with the maki-age for the over all design.  Are those tiny butterflies around the edge of the bottom-most square?  It is suprising to me how white or light the maki-age areas are.  In the middle piece, I see four values of indigo, the background is the darkest and the maki-age central panel is the lightest.  It is almost as light as white shadow shibori. The bottom-most square has the darkest maki-age areas, not sure why-maybe the motifs are not as tight to each other and more dark background shows theough.