Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chintz, which originated in India, is a glazed cotton painted with florals. Once associated with fashion, today it’s a decor ...

This handsomely illustrated book, based on one of the world’s largest textile collections, sheds light on a little-understood category of global art: the intricate, astonishingly varied block-printed ...

You’ve probably encountered the multicolored, lively cotton fabrics known as chintz at some point, and your response likely veered toward one of two very different feelings. The eye-catching South ...

Before chintz became the print we loved, then loved to hate, and now, perhaps, love again, it began simply in the early 1600s as a glazed Calico (a type of cotton originally from Calicut in India) ...

Chintz has been making a comeback after decades of banishment. Once a standard in interior design, especially for upholstery and drapes, this glazed fabric usually featured floral prints on a ...

It’s spring, and the flowers are blooming. The fashion magazines say that overall-flower prints are the thing to wear this year. So why not “dress” your table in vintage flower-decorated dishes? From ...

Form trumps function in ordinary objects created to impart a sense of beauty and grace - even everyday things like dinnerware and fasteners. Question: Enclosed are photos of a creamer and sugar bowl ...

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It's associated with ladies of a certain age, but chintz has a secret and exotic past. Far from epitomising Britishness and conservatism, this fabric was once a rare and racy luxury, discovers Dominic ...

It originated in India, and came to dominate Western interiors and fashion. Joobin Bekhrad traces the fascinating – and turbulent – history of all things ‘chintzy’. In a letter to her sister penned in ...