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Indian Chintz Bonnet
18th c

This child's bonnet was made in Marken, The Netherlands from lovely Indian hand painted chintz, which was so highly prized that any pieces not used for robes or garments were made into these little bonnets. 



The Fries Museum at Leeuwarden shows that garments were cut from palampore and yardage. Wealthy families seem to have stored great quantities of the Indian textiles for making the costumes long after the cloth was actually patterned in India.*


Cataloguing

The bonnet made from three panels of hand painted Indian chintz resist and mordant dyed, in red and magnesium (mauve) the blue being hand painted, on a natural cotton ground, the traditional braid edging woven in red and white with a geometrical stylised flower design, lined in calico.



Approximately 6 in; 16 cm across. 


Condition

Very clean. 


Comments

*  Master Dyers to the World  Mattiebelle Gittenger p 177


Price: £300 | $400 | €350

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