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Chintz jacket and neckerchief with glazed printed cotton petticoat. 1770–1800. MoMu, Antwerp.. Chintz (/ tʃ ɪ n t s / [1]) is a woodblock printed, painted, stained or glazed calico textile that originated in Golconda (present day Hyderabad, India) in the 16th century.
Chintzware, or chintz pottery, describes chinaware and pottery covered with a dense, all-over pattern of flowers (similar to chintz textile patterns) or, less often, other objects. It is a form of transferware where the pattern is applied by transfer printing as opposed to the more traditional method of painting by hand.
Chintz – The origin of Chintz is from the printed all cotton fabric of calico in India. [61] The origin of the word chintz itself is from the Hindi language word चित्र् (chitr), which means an image. [61] [62]
English dress in chintz, ca. 1770–1790, Jacoba de Jonge Collection in the province of Antwerp, Fashion Museum. The first chintz or calicoes (Catalan: indianes) arrived in Barcelona about 1650 possibly as European re-export from Marseilles, then Europe's principle route to India.
The primary bedroom is set abloom by Colefax and Fowler's elegant Fuchsia chintz across the bed and curtain. The bed pillows are by D. Porthault , and the table lamp is by Christopher Spitzmiller .
The first pattern was "Marguerite". Soon afterwards the trade name "Royal Winton" was established. Leonard Grimwade died in 1931, and James Plant took over. Over subsequent years, more than sixty chintz patterns were introduced. Because of high production costs, chintzware was discontinued in the early 1960s. [1] [2]
Chintz was relatively inexpensive and therefore very popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries, which I believe is where the term "chintzy" came from: cheap, poor-quality, "common" in a snobby, derogatory sense. Wspencer11 13:48, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
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