Textiles & Craft
Chintz (printed/painted cotton)
medieval onwardIndian textile printersCraft traditionPan-Indian / unspecified
600 CE
Colourfast printed and painted cottons; the word derives from Hindi 'chitr' (image).
- Dated
- 600 CE–1500
- As scholars put it
- medieval onward
- Originator
- Indian textile printers
- Source text
- Craft tradition
- Region
- Pan-Indian / unspecified
- Discipline
- Textiles & Craft
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Verification
- Reference-cited
Meanwhile in the West
Wildly fashionable in Europe, influencing English crewelwork and prompting import bans.
Fair to say
A textile-decoration tradition, not a single 'invention'.
Path to modern innovation
Printed cottons shaped global fashion and trade.
Transmission
Exported to Europe from the 17th c.
Museum objects
PalamporeUnreviewed
Quilted palampore for the Dutch marketUnreviewed
References
- 1Encyclopaedia Britannica: chintz
Further reading
Related
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