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Indian Chintz Print from the Coromandel Coast circa 1720                                                                                                                                                                                 More Chintz Fabric, Art Chinois, Indian Patterns, India First, Pattern Inspiration, Indian Prints, French Fabric, Indian Textiles, Antique Fabrics

This is a detail of one of the palampores at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, where they have a very fine collection and their book illustrating many called Chintz by Rosemary Crill their curator. This one is dated approx 1720 from the Coromandel Coast, India, and was made to be a bedcover or wall hanging. These designs have been famously copied by Braquenie (French fabric makers) and some of the details repeated and copied in our own Paisley shawls and other clothing and fabrics…

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Chintz was an Indian trade textile that was hand-painted, resist-and- mordant dyed cotton. It is the epitome of artistic and design exchange across cultures and continents, made using a technique that is defined as the peak of excellence in hand-painted textiles. A technique in which layer after layer of perfection was painstakingly painted using natural materials such as buffalo milk, natural dyes, mordants, wax and dung. Indeed, as Dutch agent Daniel Harvart observed in 17 th century, “ve... Painted Textiles, Indian Chintz, Buffalo Milk, Furnishing Fabrics, Contemporary Prints, Chintz Fabric, Victorian Wallpaper, Sharpie Art, Textile Pattern Design

Chintz was an Indian trade textile that was hand-painted, resist-and- mordant dyed cotton. It is the epitome of artistic and design exchange across cultures and continents, made using a technique that is defined as the peak of excellence in hand-painted textiles. A technique in which layer after layer of perfection was painstakingly painted using natural materials such as buffalo milk, natural dyes, mordants, wax and dung. Indeed, as Dutch agent Daniel Harvart observed in 17 th century…

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