Indian Chintz Spirit : Indienne prints and indian chintz fabric (Jacobins)

Indienne prints and indian chintz (Jacobins)

Indienne prints and textile designs, known as Indian Chintz is at the origin of European fabric printing. Given the success of fabrics coming from the Indies, at the beginning of the 17th century, the Europeans quickly tried to understand the techniques for their manufacture and imitate them. In the 18th century, the indienne prints and designs dress the court people and the bourgeois, they decorate elegant residences and compete with the silk industries. Indian Chintz fabric remains throughout the 19th century a base pattern that is reinterpreted for furnishing or clothing. In the latter field, during the second empire, it encounters its hours of glory under the name of Pompadour genre. Today still, it remains ever present in the collections. IMAGOMAG, an online service of Museum of Fabric Printing,  presents its collection of textile images "Indienne prints and designs" from the end of the 18th century to the present day.

• African textile design : African motif, African patterns
• Toile de Jouy : Character Fabrics
• Feather designs, feather motifs
• Floral patterns, design floral motif, Flower textile designs
• stripe designs: stripe textile designs, stripe patterns