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Paisley Box Template

A paisley (mango, keri) shaped box: a round foot rising to a curled tip, with a matching lid. Diwali, wedding and mehndi favours, mithai and dry fruit, Indian festival gifts.

Paisley box — change shape

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Put a logo, photo or pattern straight onto the box — most free template sites give you the outline and stop there. Drag it where you want it; it is trimmed to the cut lines so nothing prints off the card, and it stays in your browser.

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Bigger than the paper? Each piece prints whole on its own sheet. A single piece is never split: pick bigger paper or a smaller size. More about printing

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Drop a picture anywhere on the drawingTap “Add a picture” below to print your own design on this box.

Print at 100% (“actual size”), never “fit to page”, or the box comes out the wrong size.

The paisley box template, flat and folded

Paisley box template — free printable dieline with cut and fold lines, any size
The printable dieline at its standard size. Type your own size above for yours.
Paisley box folded up from the template — the finished box
The finished paisley box, made from it.

What this template is for

A paisley (mango, keri) shaped box: a round foot rising to a curled tip, with a matching lid. Diwali, wedding and mehndi favours, mithai and dry fruit, Indian festival gifts.

Also called mango shaped box · keri box · paisley shaped favour box · indian wedding favour box — all the same shape, and this is it.

How to use this template

All four downloads are the same paisley box at the same size — only the format changes.

PDF printing at home
Print at 100 per cent, or hand it to a print shop as "actual size, no scaling".
PNG 300 dpi Canva, Photoshop, Procreate
Upload, lock it in place and design your paisley box on top. Free plan and phone included. Full Canva walkthrough →
SVG Cricut, Illustrator, Inkscape, Affinity
Vector, with cuts, folds and labels on separate layers. Cricut and Silhouette walkthrough →
DXF Silhouette, laser and vinyl cutters
Two layers, CUT and FOLD — and the one free Silhouette Studio Basic will open.

Getting it printed properly →

Printing it

  1. Type your size above, then download the PDF.
  2. Print at 100% — never “fit to page”, or every measurement comes out wrong.
  3. Too big for the paper? Pick your paper size and leave Fit the pieces to the page ticked: each piece gets its own place on a sheet and the PDF comes out with every page in it, nothing cut in half and nothing to tape.

How to put it together

These pictures are the paisley box itself, not a generic diagram — change the measurements above and the template changes, but the three steps never do.

  1. Cut the solid lines

    Every solid line is a cut. Do the inside shapes first, while the sheet is still whole and easy to hold.

  2. Score every dashed line

    Dashed lines are folds. Score each one first — an empty ballpoint against a ruler — or the card cracks along the outside of the bend.

  3. BASEBOX WALL(glue)LIDLID WALL(glue)

    Fold, glue and hold

    Glue the wall strip round the base, creasing it only at the tip and curving it round the rest, in and out of the curl. Fold the tabs in, set the base on them and glue. Make the lid the same way.

Glue: a glue stick for paper, white PVA on card — hold each seam thirty seconds, and let it dry before you use it.

Questions about the paisley box

How does the wall follow the curl?
It is one strip that creases only at the tip and curves everywhere else, out round the foot and in along the curl. Score it lightly before you start and it bends smoothly both ways.
What size is the default box?
A paisley 110 mm long and 35 mm deep with a 15 mm lid, on two A4 or US Letter sheets. Larger ones, 150 mm and up, make good mithai boxes; small ones make wedding favours.
Which card looks best?
Gold, red or metallic card for Diwali and weddings, or print your own mehndi pattern on the lid. Score metallic card before you bend it, or it cracks along the curve.

Print your own design on it

Add a logo, photo or pattern in the panel on the left and drag it onto the paisley box. It is trimmed to the cut outline, embedded properly in the PDF, and never leaves your computer — most free template sites hand you the outline and stop there. How printing your own design works.

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