Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers . gh longerror used as singular. The original singular was chint, as illustratedby Pepys in his famous diary under date of September 5, 1663:Bought my wife a chint, that is a painted Indian calico, for to lineher study. The word is Hindoo, derived from the Sanscrit chitra,meaning many-coloured. Murrays great dictionary d
Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers . gh longerror used as singular. The original singular was chint, as illustratedby Pepys in his famous diary under date of September 5, 1663:Bought my wife a chint, that is a painted Indian calico, for to lineher study. The word is Hindoo, derived from the Sanscrit chitra,meaning many-coloured. Murrays great dictionary defines chintzas Originally, name of painted or stained calicoes imported fromIndia; now, cotton cloths fast printed with designs of flowers, etc.,generally not less than five colours and usually glazed. While both the French and the English cloth prints of the seven-teenth and eighteenth centuries were imitations of the Orientalproduct, the process of making was entirely different. In India thepatterns were painted or pencilled on, in the form of direct colours orresists, or mordants, while in France and England blocks of wood orflat plates of copper were used—the wood blocks carved in relief, andthe copper-plates in intaglio like those that produce modern engraved 322. Plate I—HAND-PAINTED COTTON OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY FROM AMBER, INDIA From the Brooklyn Museum collection 323 DECORATIVE TEXTILES visiting cards. The copper plates were used for printing on silk(Plate XXX), and for the finer and more intricate designs on linenor cotton. Both of these processes, though undoubtedly known and occa-sionally practised in China for centuries before, were fully devel-oped only in Europe, and in the eighteenth century, to imitatethe Oriental painted calicoes. The memory of this is still pre-served in the French word for wall papers (papiers peints), as wellas in a phrase often used for printed cloths (toiles peintes). Clothswere, for the most part, painted in India and Persia and
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