Indian chintz

Indian chintz is characterised by its printed or painted floral designs and vibrant, durable colours. To know more, visit MAP Academy's Encylopedia of Art.

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…

Prints, Fleurs etranges. Check the product sheet and request a sample on the Pierre Frey website!

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…

COROMANDEL COAST, SOUTH INDIA, FIRST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

Palampore detail Coromandel Coast, India, ca. 1700 Red ground chintz The Karun Thakar Collection

V&A indian textile print

Marigold Living on Instagram: “A beautiful cotton Indian palampore (chintz) at the Royal Ontario Museum made during the 19th century. These antique pieces are even more…”

Design for a chintz. British, c.1760s to c. 1770s.

I have been tracing a path back and forth through several hundred years of history, as I’ve been learning about where Manchester’s textile story began, and why and how cotton became so important to…