Every Early Repro Collection Needs...

Every Early Reproduction Collection Needs... a white ground chintz.

The document print is at the top,

 the reproduction from Lately Arrived from London at the bottom.

Chintzes, large scale cotton florals originally printed in India were a fashion rage from the 17th through the early 19th centuries.

Nineteenth-century white ground chintzes often survive

as Broderie Perse designs in American applique quilts.

Annie Righton Smith, Smithsonian American Art Museum.

 Gift of Patricia Smith Melton 1998.149.19

Cut-out chintz or Broderie Perse quilt from an online auction.

Notice the free form stars scattered around the images cut from white ground chintz.

White-ground chintz border

Reproduction quilt top by Roseanne Smith

Roseanne's quilting this top now.

These splashy prints were popular for interior decorating but also for men's and women's clothing.

The Netherlands was one of the few European countries that permitted free trade in chintzes. Many bold articles of clothing survive there. Above two baby jackets (jakje in Dutch); below two baby caps, the top example a dark ground chintz, the bottom a white ground chintz.

Chintz was fashionable for womens' gowns and men's banyans (lounging robes).

Banyan from Tasha Tudor's collection

Click here and scroll down to see King George IV's white-ground chintz banyan

http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/study/history-art-design/dress-collective/listing-of-dress-collections/the-royal-pavilion,-brighton-museum-and-art-gallery-dress-collection

Read more about the history of chintz

At this blog post MoreWeJAdore:

http://www.morewejadore.com/2011/06/you-say-chintz-like-its-bad-thing.html 

And this one from TheDreamstress

http://thedreamstress.com/2010/06/calico-muslin-gauze-a-history-of-fabric-terminology-part-2/

And a reenactor site:

http://www.firstulster.org/Pages/3_1_2_cotton_essay.html

See more chintz dresses at the Victoria and Albert Museum
http://www.vam.ac.uk/images/image/40428-popup.html 

And the Kyoto Costume Institute
http://www.kci.or.jp/archives/digital_archives/detail_56_e.html

And see another post by me about chintz with lotsa links.
http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2009/09/chintz-george-iv.html

Click here to find out how to order a white-ground reproduction from the American Quilt Study Group

http://americanquiltstudygroup.org/supportfabric.asp 

And you'd better buy yardage from my Lately Arrived from London collection---yardage in shops soon.

http://www.unitednotions.com/fcc_lately_arrived_from_london.pdf