diff --git a/plugin-designs/poster-design/poster-styles.vue b/plugin-designs/poster-design/poster-styles.vue
index e27a14009..0b6961441 100644
--- a/plugin-designs/poster-design/poster-styles.vue
+++ b/plugin-designs/poster-design/poster-styles.vue
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import { createPeopleGroupRecords } from '@map/lists/peopleGroupRecords.js'
 import { getApiBaseUrl } from '@map/api/apiBaseUrl.js'
 import { getRuntimeLocale, detectLocale } from '@map/i18n/index.js'
 import countryData from '@map/data/country-posters.json'
-import { makeCountrySheet } from '@map/packet/countrySheet.js'
+import { makeCountrySheet, sheetWithheld } from '@map/packet/countrySheet.js'
 import { loadPacketStrings } from '@map/packet/packetStrings.js'
 import { firstPageImage } from './src/pageThumb.js'
 import { panelsSvgUrl } from './src/panelsSvg.js'
@@ -54,6 +54,14 @@ const groupBy = (item) => t(FAMILY_KEYS[byName.get(item.id)?.family] || FAMILY_K
 
 // ── drawing a configuration from the library ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
 const countryById = (id) => (countryData.countries || []).find((c) => c.id === id)
+// A design whose sample country is WITHHELD (countrySheet.js: the whole-India poster, for now) shows this sentence on its
+// card and is never drawn or printed: PosterWall answers `unsupported` before it draws a preview or starts a print. The
+// designs stay in the catalogue, so they reappear the day the country is no longer withheld.
+const withheld = (item) => {
+  const c = byName.get(item.id)
+  const sample = c && c.sample ? countryById(c.sample) : null
+  return sample && sheetWithheld(sample) ? t('messages.countryPosterTooMany') : null
+}
 const sample = countryById(SAMPLE_COUNTRY_ID)
 const recordsFor = createPeopleGroupRecords({
   apiBase: () => profileConfig.value?.apiBaseUrl || getApiBaseUrl(),
@@ -192,6 +200,7 @@ useShadowStyles(`
       :collapsible="true"
       :header-action="{ labelKey: 'posterDesign.showFullDetails', ariaKey: 'posterDesign.showFullDetailsAria' }"
       :preview-src="previewSrc"
+      :unsupported="withheld"
       :sheet="sheet"
       :hide-prayer-list-when-soon="true"
       download-prefix="doxa-poster-design"