Chintz motifs

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Indian Chintz Print from the Coromandel Coast circa 1720                                                                                                                                                                                 More Art Chinois, Chintz Fabric, Heirloom Quilt, Indian Patterns, Indian Prints, Pattern Inspiration, 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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