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It existed in a hinterland of chintz and misguided aspiration.

Some of the ponchos were floral and quilted like a chintz bedspread. Cute.

He covered the whole room — walls, curtains, furniture, the works — in scarlet chintz.

The collection of the "Prince of Chintz" had a sell-through rate of 99%.

As designed by Magda Willi, this is no chintz-filled boudoir out of Southern Living.

They were often lined with similarly vibrant Russian cotton or Indian chintz fabrics, according to Farhad.

Nan Goldin shows us empty bedrooms in German brothels, overripe with chintz, swagged pelmets and sentimental pictures of children.

"The whole '90s were the English country look, collections, chintz," said Jennifer Lacker, an antiques appraiser in Mystic, Conn.

WHEN Heathrow airport opened, in 22012, the only retail facilities were a bar with chintz armchairs and a small newsagent's.

"It was done in chintz and toile and painted in 'Americana' colors—dark red, blue, mustard, and olive," she said.

At the front of the house is a library with green glazed walls and curtains and armchairs in matching chintz.

A hand-dyed printed cotton fabric, chintz was made in India to European tastes before British factories reproduced the patterns en masse.

Beauty was redefined as something simpler, less constructed, echoed in interiors where shiny damask and flowery chintz were tastefully reswaddled in textured neutrals.

Mario Buatta, one of the country's leading interior decorators, who was widely known as the Prince of Chintz, died on Monday in Manhattan.

From her mother, Hogg inherited a love of faded Oriental carpets, chinoiserie lacquer and the chintz-like colors found in 18th-century porcelain.

Her crisp mission statement suggested that I was witnessing the juncture in the creative process where current events find their expression in brick or chintz.

So, mostly, is Junya Watanabe, who spliced oversized suit jackets to trenches to knits to parkas, most of it over chintz floral leggings or shirtdresses.

Chintz fabric, which is defined by Vogue as a "glazed Calico often printed or painted with large florals," was popular in a typical '80s room.

That being said, Katy Perry's much-anticipated new single "Chained to the Rhythm" definitely skews high on the chintz scale, with Max Martin and co.

He was particularly fond of chintz, the printed cotton fabric with a glazed finish, and made exuberant use of pillows, fringes, swags, tassels, bows and ruffles.

As popular music continues to flirt with various forms of chintz, the world has grown to accept the blaring sounds of what was once a despised instrument.

A capacious silk bedspread, for instance, was embroidered in China but following the design of an Indian chintz bedspread, which was itself derived from European decorative motifs.

Nicknamed "the prince of chintz," he popularized the English-country-house style that a generation of Wall Street wives adopted for their Upper East Side classic sixes.

Mariposa, for example, is inspired by Indian block prints and Provencal motifs, while Desert Flower calls on Turkish and Indian designs, but looks like a classic British chintz.

BIJOUX and CHINTZ are not friendly words to squeeze into a tight grid, so there is some glue but apparently NOT SO MUCH as to be a dealbreaker.

Upbeat, rubbery, scintillating blocks of synthesizer chintz shimmer and surge as the brashly angry tone of her rapping signals release from repression and lends her music its force.

Last year, Mr. Hamilton wrote "The Chintz Age" (Cervena Barva Press, 2015), a collection of short stories and a novella about artists trying to survive in a changing city.

The brand announced that they've selected nine of their most-loved shades to gift their customers on Sunday, including Tanarama, Aloof, Delish, Florabundi, Moxie, Epic, Dare You, Chintz and Mixed Media.

The ban kind of worked, though it also had the unfortunate effect of concentrating attention on Mr. Giorgetti's cacophonous explosion of polka dots and puffa skirts, chintz and fish-scale paillettes.

Writers have been granted peeks into Sir John's cluttered interiors before, but this volume culls decades of his flocked wallpaper, chintz, and conversation-worthy antiques and artworks (not just by Picasso).

At Moncler Gamme Rouge, Giambattista Valli layered up tweeds on techno chintz on lace on ribbed tights on Alpine knits, and added matching bedrolls and backpacks for more glamorous self-sufficiency.

Using a shiny chintz fabric from Japan, he designed his own version of it, with a slim fit, knitted ribbing at the waist and cuffs, and a strap at the collar.

In the bedroom, a 19th-century bazaar chintz with a classic Parisian palm-leaf pattern reflects the brand's embroidery symbols; a Tracey Emin neon-lit artwork hangs on a nearby wall.

The Prince of Chintz, as a television reporter named Mr. Buatta in 1984, designed interiors for a certain kind of American royalty — for Doubledays, Forbes and Newhouses, two presidents and Mariah Carey.

What Chekhov said about the gun above the mantel is true, but also this: anything can be a bullet—fever unchecked, whiff of chintz, that shrapnel of stars, dizzying, we last saluted.

At 45A I filled in CHINTZ with confidence, but got stuck on Mr. Haight's onomatopoeic BZZT (for some reason when I hear that angry game show buzzer it says EHHH to me).

And though the cramped, split-level set by Dane Laffrey accurately suggests the claustrophobic situation, it never allows you to focus on the individual characters, who keep disappearing among the chintz and hallways.

In a living room with a "chintz" design aesthetic, Beth Ailes, Roger's loyal wife and protector, and Irena Briganti, Fox News' fearsome head of public relations (still!), were rushing around talking on the phone.

So not only are you getting a free lipstick, but you're also getting one that the entire Internet is currently hunting down on Ebay — like Moxie, a matte fuchsia, or Chintz, a copper brown.

Like a float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, an enormous chandelier constructed of lights and crystals hung above people drinking tea in the historic lobby, their heavy winter coats thrown over its chintz couches.

In Hasan's version of an 1868 painting by John Everett Millais the face and hands of the central figure fade into a shadowy background, as the artist focuses instead on her dress, made of chintz.

His apartments and houses for Calvin Klein, Karl Lagerfeld and Larry Gagosian introduced a new visual vocabulary to interior design: Jacquard valances and chintz were replaced by squared-off white armchairs and low, dark wenge tables.

Book the Publishing House starting at $249This urban loft in the heart of the West Loop, one of Chicago's hottest neighborhoods, feels much more like a boutique hotel rather than the typical old-school chintz and doily B&B.

Evidence is the charmingly innocent "Domestic Scene, Los Angeles" of 1963, which shows a man wearing only socks and an apron washing the back of a man taking a shower, in the company of a comfy chintz-covered armchair.

Otherwise, we were forbidden to hang around the owner's abode, though one afternoon, fevered, I sought their cooler rooms out and found, in a darkened den, a chintz throw on a sofa, and below, a load of Smith & Wessons.

As Bazilian wrote, "Maybe the ultimate appeal of the grandmillennial aesthetic lies in the fact that, for the stressed-out twenty- and thirty-somethings of the world, that cozy chintz chair at your grandmother's house represents a much-needed respite."

As Dawson continues filling the rooms, much of the tower's charm now comes from its inherent imperfections: The chintz curtains blow a little too close to the fireplace, the forest-green plaster walls look a bit rough in the sunlight.

It veered from hippie flares patchworked in denim, suede and velvet (also python, chintz and leopard), silver flowers and Navajo beading writhing up the sides, to elaborately embroidered silk kimonos and fringed capes, and an entire souk's worth of tiered, exotic-print, glimmering maxi dresses.

"At the same time it's more minimalist," recalling creations from The Row, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's coolly understated label, more than Batsheva, last year's crunchy frontier favorite: a collection of dresses replete with mutton sleeves, calf grazing skirts and cascading acres of gingham and chintz.

Instead, he showed up for a few hours of filming in the Savoy Hotel, where he sat in an armchair to which a piece of chintz had been stapled, to replicate the one used by the original crew for its interviews, which were conducted in the same location.

Decorators like Hampton — and like Angelo Donghia, who outfitted apartments for Diana Ross and Ralph Lauren before dying of an AIDS-related illness in 1985 — transformed grand Fifth Avenue domiciles once bedecked with uncomfortable, inherited cane-backed settees into cushy sanctuaries adorned with the pattern-mad chintz of English country manors.

Now 48, Mr. Netto was a teenager during the heyday of Kips Bay, when Mario Buatta, the so-called Prince of Chintz, and Mark Hampton, the scholarly traditionalist, squared off like gladiators in show house after show house, alongside Albert Hadley or Joe D'Urso or John Saladino, designers whose flourishes were more modern.

Ostrich and crocodile outerwear mixed with tissue-thin ribbed cotton and crinkled cotton raffia; evening gowns in chintz linen (there was a lot of discreet cross-fertilization going on) were given a twist at the bodice or waist and bound with leather straps and tuxedos in iridescent silk lay easy on the frame.

Ms. Krantz, who moved to Southern California with her family in the early 1970s, lived for many years in an 8,19403-square-foot Bel Air home that was a riot of chintz, the silver snuff boxes and 19th-century opaline glass she collected, Chanel suits — she owned at least 40 — and Hermès .

The new AD owes some of its DNA to the 10-month period in 1987 when a 38-year-old British fashion editor named Anna Wintour took over House & Garden, shortened its title to HG and upended its arm's length coverage of stately interiors by showing models romping in chintz, children — children!

But India has been making good stuff for a long time: the chintz and calico that gave Europeans their first taste of real fashion, the teapots over which Americans plotted their independence, the indigo that suited armies the world over, the jute which made tough gunny sacks, and even the manhole covers sealing American sewers.

Ms. Wintour tends to always go with Chanel, though Rihanna loves a theme: In 2015, she modeled a golden cape by the Chinese designer Guo Pei to "China Through the Looking Glass" that inspired a thousand sunny-side up memes, and last year opted for chintz boa constrictor ruffles in straight-from-the-runway Comme.

The Shindigger WASHINGTON — Settling into a red chintz high-backed chair a week ago at Off the Record, the subterranean bar in the Hay-Adams hotel across from the White House that teems with so many of the capital's mandarins, the British politician Nigel Farage surveyed the room over a Tanqueray gin and tonic.

This album doesn't lull me into a meditative state in the traditional sense, in the way that some washy synths and the distant ringing of a tubular bell might, but something about the chintz, the muted groove, and the heart-on-the-sleeve tackiness of This Boy pulls me into a blissful embrace all the same.

Almost immediately after the fair opened on Tuesday, buyers from several major American retailers and from the influential Japanese retailer United Arrows stopped by his booth to talk about carrying his line, attracted by the striped polo shirts knit on vintage machines, the patterned cotton sports shirts made from reversed floral chintz and the spare installation.

She feels at home in Kelly green cardigans trimmed in cotton-candy pink, tennis skirts and stylized Mario Buatta chintz; likes a road trip to Nantucket, complete with sailor pants and sailboat prints; and slouches toward Montecito in the evening in empire-waisted paisley maxidresses, the better to have a martini as the sun sets on the Pacific.

There also was a room collaged with fabric swatches and sketches referencing the decorator Nancy Lancaster and Virginia Woolf's novel of gender-bending and time travel, "Orlando," all in homage to the designer Christopher Bailey's inspiration for his collection, shown just upstairs in rooms lined with chintz-covered benches: the first see-now/shop-now, combined men's-and-women's line in Burberry history.

Collaborating over the last year with Señor Amor, a designer and D.J. whose firm has done work for Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Go's, Ms. Beat has transformed an appealing but inconspicuous house in this up-and-coming suburb — a house that was once a day care center upholstered in pastel chintz — into a moody, Brutalist-inspired bastion of art and kitsch.

The hoteliers have described the décor as chic yet unpretentious, which, in this case, means they have stripped out the island-style chintz and shabby-chic often found in Vineyard bed-and-breakfasts, added a high gloss dark stain to the wood floors, pulled in cool blue and white geometric rugs and wallpapers, and maintained a crisp teal blue, cream and gray color palate throughout the hotel.

There were, for sure, some brave souls: Pharrell Williams, an event co-chairman, in ripped jeans, "Rei" inked on the knee, plaid shirt and motorcycle jacket; his wife, Helen Lasichanh, in a red jumpsuit that flattened and haloed the body and had no armholes; Michèle Lamy, the partner of the designer Rick Owens, in snaking red and pink vinyl waves; and Rihanna, swallowed up in a boa constrictor of chintz ruffles, femininity on the rampage.

Chintz fragment with tulips and insects (reportedly found in Japan), Coromandel Coast, India, ca.1700-30. Chintz Panel (India), 18th century. Shaped cartouche pieced from a palampore. Background of red and white chintz.

In 1686 the French declared a ban on all chintz imports. In 1720 England's Parliament enacted a law that forbade "the Use and Warings in Apparel of imported chintz, and also its use or Wear in or about any Bed, Chair, Cushion or other Household furniture". Even though chintz was outlawed, there were loopholes in the legislation. The Court of Versailles was outside the law and fashionable young courtiers continued wearing chintz.

In 1734, French naval officer, M. de Beaulieu, who was stationed at Pondicherry, India, sent home letters along with actual samples of chintz fabric during each stage of the process to a chemist friend detailing the dyeing process of cotton chintz. His letters and samples can be seen today in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris. In 1742, another Frenchman, Father Coeurdoux, also supplied details of the chintz making process, while he was trying to convert the Indians to Catholicism. In 1759 the ban against chintz was lifted.

In The Chintz Sofa by McNicoll, Sharp is depicted in their shared London studio.

Reproduction chintz pattern china tea set, late 20th century. Chintzware, or chintz pottery, describes chinaware and pottery covered with a dense, all-over pattern of flowers (similar to chintz textile patterns) or, less often, other objects. It is a form of transferware where the pattern is applied by transfer printing as opposed to the more traditional method of painting by hand. The main firms making chintzware were English, nearly all part of the huge Staffordshire pottery industry.

Although the typical Dolly Varden fashion of the large overskirt and polonaise died out with changes in fashion at the turn of the century, the names continued to be associated with chintz patterned fabrics and peplum style dresses. Even in the late 1930s, chintz patterned fashions might still have the name 'Dolly Varden' attached to them.

Besides the books already mentioned she wrote: # Only, 1849. # A Merry Christmas, 1850. # Dream Chintz, 1851. # Cloud with the Silver Lining, 1851.

Six episodes of Ethel and Albert were adapted by Granada Television in Manchester, England, in 1979 titled Chintz and starring a British cast.

Sitsi (Estonian for "Chintz") is a subdistrict () in the district of Põhja- Tallinn, Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It has a population of 3,874 ().

Chintz jacket and neckerchief with glazed printed cotton petticoat. 1770–1800. MoMu, Antwerp. Chintz, woodblock printed, painted, stained or glazed calico textiles, originated in Golconda (present day Hyderabad, India) in the 16th century. Cloth is printed with designs featuring flowers and other patterns in different colours, typically on a light plain background. (The name is derived from the Hindi chīnt, meaning ‘spotted’, ‘variegated’, ‘speckled’, or ‘sprayed’).

Their embroideries became denser and more colorful, with larger flowers resembling chintz. The knotted fringes also gradually became longer, accentuating movements by women as they walked or danced.

The house is full of chintz and nicknacks and Terry obediently removes the offending articles as instructed only to put them all back once the Hotel Inspector leaves.

By 1680 more than a million pieces of chintz were being imported into England per year, and a similar quantity was going to France and the Dutch Republic. These early imports were probably mostly used for curtains, furnishing fabrics, and bed hangings and covers (Samuel Pepys bought a set for his wife). It has been suggested that wearing them as clothes began when these were replaced and given to maidservants, who made them into dresses, and also that they were first worn as linings. With imported chintz becoming so popular with Europeans during the late 17th century, French and English mills grew concerned, as they did not know how to make chintz.

Broderie perse can be done with any printed fabric on any ground, but it originally was worked with Chintz type fabrics. Chintz typically has clearly defined, separated motifs, which were cut out and invisibly applied onto the ground fabric. The typical intention was to create a scene from the motifs, but the decoration could also be random. The resulting fabric was often made into bedspreads, either unlined for summer or quilted for winter.

Modern chintz usually consists of bright overall floral patterns printed on a light background but there are some popular patterns on black backgrounds as well. The term 'chintzy' is attributed to novelist George Eliot, who in 1851 wrote about muslin fabric to her sister, saying: “The quality of the spotted one is best, but the effect is chintzy”. This is believed to have been said about cheap British imitations of real chintz, which became common at the time.

Green and white braid applied to outline the edges. Chintz was originally a woodblock printed, painted or stained calico produced in Hyderabad, India from 1600 to 1800 and popular for bed covers, quilts and draperies. After Vasco da Gama successfully reached Calicut in India in 1498, the fabric became known in Europe. Around 1600, Portuguese and Dutch traders were bringing examples of Indian chintz into Europe on a small scale, but the English and French merchants began sending large quantities.

The Barcelona Trading Company was granted a monopoly on trade to the Caribbean islands of Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo and Margarita as well as being allowed ten annual visits to Guatemala and Honduras, trade with Cumaná (north eastern Venezuela) and some limited trading with Havana. The Company exported principally wine and brandy and increasingly chintz (or printed calico ) as this industry grew in Barcelona. Imported products included raw cotton, indigo, brazilwood, cocoa, tobacco, sugar amongst others. The raw cotton and dyes assisted in the production of chintz that was then reexported to the Americas as well as the domestic (Spanish peninsula) market.

They saw several goods in the water, some firewood, a chest of tea, a Chintz piece of cotton, a carpenters boor, white candles, and the staves for barrels. The Concordia was officially listed as being lost somewhere near Mauritius in 1708.Dutch Shipwrecks on the Western Australian Coastline (2008). Dutch Shipwrecks: Concordia.

They had an easier time gaining access to cheap labour, American slavery notwithstanding, as well as an easier time inculcating their workers with the skills needed to harvest indigo, and had invested in large plantations. Their American counterparts had been devastated by the Revolutionary War, as well as an inopportune series of natural disasters such as floods, droughts and pests. The business was apparently profitable from the outset, to the extent that within a year Prinsep opened a copper mint at Pulta in 1780 under authority of the government, after he and Alexander Cunningham discovered the copper mines at Rotasgarh, producing the first copper coinage in India. Prinsep also traded on his background in the textile business, opening a cotton fabric printing plant in Bengal, as well as acting for ten years as the chintz contractor for the East India Company, an enormously successful venture.Thacker's Guide to Calcutta, Walter Kelly Firminger, Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta, 1906 (The chintz venture involved adapting British calico-making techniques to making a cloth called chintz.) In a few years, Prinsep's near-monopoly had made the country vicar's son one of the wealthiest men in India.

By 1937, Draper had become a household name whose aesthetic enthusiasm was adopted by suburban housewives. F. Schumacher sold more than a million yards of her cabbage rose chintz in the 1930s and 1940s. The Draper bedroom scheme of wide pink and white wallpaper, chenille bedspreads, and organdy curtains soon became ubiquitous across the country.

Broderie perse refers to the technique of cutting motifs from printed fabric and appliquéing them onto a solid background. This form of quilt making has been done since the 18th century. The popular printed fabric during this period was chintz imported from India. Printed fabric was expensive even for those who were well off.

By this time French and English mills were able to produce chintz. Europeans at first produced reproductions of Indian designs, and later added original patterns. A well-known make was toile de Jouy, which was manufactured in Jouy, France, between 1700 and 1843. Eventually the word in English came to describe any industrially printed cotton.

The crew bought 10 barrels of lemons for each sloop and salted them instead of cabbage. The king got red cloth, woollen blankets, coloured chintz and shawls, mirrors, axes, glassware, and so on. He also received a medal with the profile of the Russian emperor. King granted Bellingshausen three pearls that were "slightly larger than peas".

Advertisement from 1948 alt=advertisement for stemwareDuring the Great Depression the company made glassware for the higher and lower cost segments of the market. Two popular Fostoria etching patterns were Navarre and Chintz. Navarre was made from 1937 until 1980. Some of the pieces were etched onto the Baroque glass pattern, but others were on more modern glass patterns.

There were over 50 different patterns in various colours available. While often made in pottery, some manufacturers such as Shelley produced bone china chintzware, particularly after World War II. Chintzware was also copied at the time by German, Czech and Japanese manufacturers. Royal Winton began reproducing a few of their chintz patterns in the mid-to-late 1990s.

" Time review Alexandra Jacobs of Entertainment Weekly graded the novel B, adding it "doesn't so much turn the case inside out . . . as furnish the hateful thing with a fancy chintz slipcover . . . Dunne bobs and weaves so skillfully from Veronica Hearst to Heidi Fleiss that his fiction (or is it journalism?) is something like delicate needlework. Guiltily mouthwatering stuff.

Since the 19th century the term has also been used for the style of floral decoration developed in those calico textiles, but then used more widely, for example on chintzware pottery and wallpaper. Chintz designs are derived from the style of Indian designs themselves reflecting Mughal art. A white base with floral and animal prints are its basic characteristics.

This is shown in the same fashion as the remainder of the house. The second floor. 1: Lady Iliffe's bedroom; 2: Shell Room; 3: Dressing Room; 4: Bamboo Bedroom; 5: Crimson Bedroom; 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 & 12: Bedrooms closed to the public; 10: Green Chintz Room; 13: Clerestory giving light to the Staircase Hall, concealed from sight by the roofline.

Sarasa chintz from the Coromandel Coast, 17th or 18th century, made for the Japanese market. Private collection, Nara Prefecture. By late 1530 the Coromandel Coast was home to three Portuguese settlements at Nagapattinam, São Tomé de Meliapore, and Pulicat . In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Coromandel Coast was the scene of rivalries among European powers for control of the India trade.

The product was originally made in crystal, but later on a few pieces with color. The Baroque glass pattern was made by Fostoria from 1937 to 1965, and used for stemware and many types of tableware. The Chintz pattern was made from 1940 to 1973. This etching pattern is a drawing of branches leaves and flowers, and was usually on the Baroque glass pattern.

The name "Karjamaa" meaning pasture, was carried over to the neighbourhood because the area was mostly used as a pasture before the 19th century. The first known settlement in the Hundipea area is mentioned in 1374 as Zudenpeyke (Susipea). Karjamaa is also known as Sitsimägi (Chintz Hill). In 1728 a large stone building, which housed the navy hospital for a short time, was built in the area.

The Stanley Hotel has 217 rooms, including 160 deluxe rooms, 32 club rooms, two courier singles, 21 themed suites, a presidential suite, and a penthouse. The deluxe rooms are classically appointed with chintz-style decorations and plush carpeting. Suites have a living room and guest water closet, as well as the bedroom (two bedrooms in some suites). The presidential suite also has a bodyguard room.

The name for the cake no doubt developed from the Dolly Varden dress. However, in the late 19th century, the Dolly Varden cake was different. Many recipes call for a double layered cake with one layer as a lemon or vanilla cake and the other as a rich spice or fruit cake. Chunks of cherries in the cake were often used to mimic the chintz of the fashion.

The sitting and sleeping area had a folding door entrance of green painted wood under glass upper panels. The house had two rooms separated by a festooned tent door of chintz fabric and was carpeted with hand crafted makaloa mats. In the front was a lounge area opposite a sideboard and mirror. In the middle they placed a semi circle of armchairs with a center table where the couple would write.

Part of Clive's collection from India including fine old master paintings, the wealth amassed after the Battle of Plassey and the Battle of Serirangapatnam, French and English furniture, and Italian curiosities, were brought to the castle. These include Tipu Sultan's magnificent state tent, made of painted chintz; a gold and bejewelled tiger's head finials from Tipu's throne; and two cannons that are today positioned on either side of the castle entrance.

Sample of calico printed with a six- colour machine by Walter Crum & Co., from Frederick Crace Calvert, Dyeing and Calico Printing (1878). Early Indian chintz, that is, glazed calico with a large floral pattern, was primarily produced using painting techniques.Turnbull, A History of Calico Printing in Great Britain, 1951. Later, the hues were applied by wooden blocks, and the cloth manufacturers in Britain printed calico using wooden block printing.

The rooms were ceiled with stretched calico and walls were decorated by gluing chintz directly to the timber. In 1903, William Nott died and the eldest of his surviving sons, William Ingliss, managed the property. His two brothers and a sister, Emma, served overseas in World War I while another sister, Jessie, helped to run the station. In the 1920s the homestead was repaired and the roof shingles were replaced by corrugated iron sheeting.

The house had two rooms separated by a festooned tent door of chintz fabric and was carpeted with hand crafted makaloa mats. In the front was a lounge area opposite a sideboard and mirror. In the middle they placed a semi circle of armchairs with a center table where the couple would write. Four matching cabinet-bookshelves with glass doors were set in each corner of the room with silk scarves hanging from each.

Creeping and mounding variants of T. serpyllum are used as border plants and ground cover around gardens and stone paths. It may also be used to replace a bluegrass lawn to xeriscape low to moderate foot traffic areas due to its tolerance for low water and poor soils. Numerous cultivars have been produced, of which 'Pink Chintz' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. A miniature creeping form is 'Elfin'.

Draper created a new style known as "Modern Baroque," adding a modern flair to a classical style. She used dramatic interior color schemes, and trademark cabbage-rose chintz. She promoted shiny black ceilings, acid-green woodwork and cherry-red floors, believing that "Lovely, clear colors have a vital effect on our mental happiness." She also chose very dramatic and contrasting color schemes, such as black with white and adding in some bits of color.

Unglazed calico was traditionally called "cretonne". The word calico is derived from the name of the Indian city Calicut (Kozhikkode in native Malayalam), to which it had a manufacturing association. In contemporary language, the words "chintz" and "chintzy" can be used to refer to clothing or furnishings which are vulgar or florid in appearance, and commonly in informal speech, to refer to cheap, low quality, or gaudy things, and similarly, to personal behavior.

In 1999 Moran wrote her first book, Shelley Chintz, Unlocking the Secrets of the Pattern Books, which received media coverage on Fox 5 News, Discovery Channel, Discovery Home Channel and Comcast morning news show. In 2002, Browntrout Publishers produced a calendar using images from her book. The calendar was called "Tea With Kelly". Browntrout Publishers produces only six other calendars named after people (Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Audrey Hepburn, The Beatles, the Three Stooges and Anne Geddes).

The four-post bed has been hung with a reproduction of a glazed chintz c1860 known to have been used in another Gothic Revival house, Greenoaks at Darling Point. The bed has the typical arrangement of three mattresses filled with straw, horsehair and feathers (bottom to top). # FITZWILLIAM’S ROOM IN THE HALL Vaucluse House was left incomplete in the mid-1840s and the large open upper hall was partitioned by cupboards to create a bedroom for Wentworth's second son, Fitzwilliam.

Theobald Chartran's painting Signing of the Peace Protocol Between Spain and the United States, August 12, 1898 was hung in the room along with copies of several treaties signed at the White House. Drapery was based on a design of Lincoln's era. President Kennedy signed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in the room in 1963. Boudin's design survived into the administration of George H. W. Bush who had the room painted a light green and simple printed chintz curtains installed.

Behind the great hall is a staircase with twisted balusters that was added late in the 17th century. In about 1700 John Hodges had the house rebuilt and enlarged by adding a north-east wing at right angles to the original Tudor building. It contains the Great Kitchen and the Oak Parlour, on the ground floor, beneath two sleeping chambers, now called the White Bedroom and the Chintz Bedroom. Hodges also had a separate brewhouse built at the same time.

Silk gowns and stomachers were often intricately embroidered in floral and life motifs, demonstrating great attention to detail and care for an accurate portrayal of nature. A mid-century vogue for striped fabrics had the stripes running different directions on the trim and the body of the gown. Chintz, Indian cotton fabric with block-printed imaging on a white base, was wildly fashionable. Bans against their importation to protect the British silk, linen and woolen industries did nothing to reduce their desirability.

Squirrel Nutkin was published in August 1903 and Tailor in October 1903. Both were published in deluxe editions bound in a flowered chintz of scattered pansies the author selected. The familiar illustrated endpapers of Potter characters in a chain bordering the edges of the page were introduced in both books against Potter's better judgement. However, Warne was delighted with the commercial potential of the endpapers because new characters hinting at future titles could be worked into the design at any time.

The age of discovery, seen from the European point of view, introduced major economic changes. The Columbian exchange resulted in Europe adopting new crops, as well as shaking up traditional cultural ideas and practices. The commercial revolution continued, with Europeans developing mercantilism and European imports of luxury goods (notably spices and fine cloth Calico (from Calicut), muslin and chintz, for example. ) from eastern and southern Asia switching from crossing Islamic territory in the present-day Middle East to passing the Cape of Good Hope.

A History of Mathematics (Second ed.). John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. , p. 210. Notable military inventions include war elephants, crucible steel weapons popularly known as Damascus steel and Mysorean rockets.Narasimha Roddam (2 April 1985) Rockets in Mysore and Britain, 1750–1850 A.D., National Aeronautical Laboratory and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560017 India, Project Document DU 8503, Other notable inventions during ancient period include chess, cotton, sugar, fired bricks, carbon pigment ink, ruler, lac, lacquer, stepwell, indigo dye, snake and ladder, muslin, ludo, calico, Wootz steel, incense clock, shampoo, palampore, chintz, and prefabricated homes.

With a focus on the vibrant commercial market, these designs were championed by influential architects of the time such as Milner Gray and Misha Black and were subsequently to appear on everything from seats on BEA's Trident aircraft to the interiors of the QE2. Weaving ceased at the company's Braintree location in 1971, but under the stewardship of John Tibbitts (Frank Warner's grandson), Warner & Sons oversaw production of high-end chintz for London companies such as Colefax & Fowler and US firms such as Lee Jofa and Brunschwig and Fils.

Known as the "Prince of Chintz" for his use of lush floral prints, and also as the "King of Clutter", Buatta was greatly influenced by English interior design, especially the Regency period, and known for rooms that evoked the English country house. Buatta was unusual in the interior design profession in working almost alone, and described himself as "married to [his] business". He was a mainstay of the Kips Bay Decorator Showhouse and from 1977 to 1991 chaired The Winter Show, greatly increasing its prominence as an antiques and design venue.

However, the scene had to be completed rapidly, before the paint clogged the pores of her skin.Shirley Temple Black, Child Star: An Autobiography (New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1988), 106. As a souvenir, Temple received the film's doll house with hooked rugs on its parquet floors, chintz curtains at its windows, crisp sheets on its beds, fake food in its refrigerator, bric-a-brac on its tiny tabletops, books on its shelves, and its toilet with a working lid. Every drawer and every door in the doll house opened.

The Indian taste was for dark printed backgrounds, while the European market preferred a pattern on a cream base. As the century progressed the European preference moved from the large chintz patterns to smaller, tighter patterns. Thomas Bell patented a printing technique in 1783 that used copper rollers. In 1785, Livesey, Hargreaves and Company put the first machine that used this technique into operation in Walton-le-Dale, Lancashire. The production volume for printed cloth in Lancashire in 1750 was estimated at 50,000 pieces of ; in 1850, it was 20,000,000 pieces.

The Gurkha is a bay colt with a small white star bred in Ireland by the Chintz Syndicate, a breeding company associated with the John Magnier's Coolmore Stud organisation. He was sired by Galileo, who won the Derby, Irish Derby and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in 2001. Galileo is now one of the world's leading stallions and has been champion sire of Great Britain and Ireland five times. His other progeny include Cape Blanco, Frankel, Golden Lilac, Nathaniel, New Approach, Rip Van Winkle and Ruler of the World.

"Toile de Jouy", sometimes abbreviated to simply "toile", is a type of decorating pattern consisting of a white or off-white background on which is a repeated pattern depicting a fairly complex scene, generally of a pastoral theme such as a couple having a picnic by a lake or an arrangement of flowers. The pattern portion consists of a single color, most often black, dark red, or blue. Greens, browns, and magenta toile patterns are less common, but not unheard of. Toile is most associated with fabrics (curtains and upholstery in particular, especially chintz), though toile wallpaper is also popular.

She brought chintz to informal dressing rooms and bedrooms, inaugurated the vogue for smoked mirrors veined with gold and extended her love of reflective and lacquered surfaces to lacquered walls, satin upholstery and the metallic wallpapers she invented. In Cumming's own town house, the living room had early-eighteenth-century hand-painted Chinese wallpaper with a silvery background and Louis XV furniture. Conventional lamps were one of her pet hates, so black candles lighted the room. At the top of her townhouse was the infamous “Ugly Room” filled with predatory images of snakes, vultures, boars and monkeys.

The term "Dolly Varden" in dress is generally understood to mean a brightly patterned, usually flowered, dress with a polonaise overskirt gathered up and draped over a separate underskirt. The overdress is typically made from printed cotton or chintz, although it can be made from other materials such as lightweight wool, silk and muslin. An 1869 fashion doll in the collection of the V&A; Museum of Childhood is dressed in the Dolly Varden mode; unusually the outfit is in dark colours.1869 Fashion doll wearing Dolly Varden costume in the collection of the V&A; Museum of Childhood.

"Where are they now... ? 'Some Mothers Do ’Ave' ’Em actress Michele Dotrice" Express, 22 October 2016 In February 2016, the BBC announced that she was to reprise the role in a one-off special to be broadcast as part of the Sport Relief charity fundraiser event. Her other 1970s roles include Felicity in the Jason King episode "Buried in the Cold Cold Ground", and Lady Percy in the BBC productions of Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2 in 1979. In 1981 she took the leading role in the short-lived sitcom Chintz, which aired on ITV.

Chintz comedy.co.uk, retrieved 15 October 2017 In 1987, Dotrice played the role of a new mother whose child was snatched in an episode of The Equalizer along with her future husband Edward Woodward. In the mid-1990s she appeared for several episodes in the period drama Bramwell. She appeared in the film Captain Jack (1999) with Bob Hoskins. She has made numerous guest appearances in well-known British television series, including Midsomer Murders (1 episode, 1998), Holby City (1 episode, 2002), Murder in Suburbia (as Cindy in Episode 6, Season 2, 2005), and the BBC daytime soap opera Doctors (1 episode, 2008).

Cotton's rise to global importance came about as a result of the cultural transformation of Europe and Britain's trading empire. Calico and chintz, types of cotton fabrics, became popular in Europe, and by 1664 the East India Company was importing a quarter of a million pieces into Britain. By the 18th century, the middle class had become more concerned with cleanliness and fashion, and there was a demand for easily washable and colourful fabric. Wool continued to dominate the European markets, but cotton prints were introduced to Britain by the East India Company in the 1690s.

And it really is startlingly new, with its ancient Egyptian setting in the country household of a mortuary priest who overstrains his already tense family by bringing home an ultra-tough live in concubine from Memphis. Result: a series of murders. With her special archaeological equipment, Mrs Christie makes you feel just as much at home on the Nile in 1945 B.C. as if she were bombarding you with false clues in a chintz-covered drawing room in Leamington Spa. But she has not merely changed scenes; her reconstruction is vivid and she works really hard at her characters.

Cotton bales at the port in Bombay, India, 1860's. The English East India Company (EIC) introduced the Britain to cheap calico and chintz cloth on the restoration of the monarchy in the 1660s. Initially imported as a novelty side line, from its spice trading posts in Asia, the cheap colourful cloth proved popular and overtook the EIC's spice trade by value in the late 17th century. The EIC embraced the demand, particularly for calico, by expanding its factories in Asia and producing and importing cloth in bulk, creating competition for domestic woollen and linen textile producers.

Moscow was also on the verge of starvation; the main food products were issued on the cards, and prices on the black market were too high. It was then that small businessmen appeared, who became known as the "bagmen", to partially fill the gap. Crowds of peasants began to arrive in the city from distant villages with bags of local food – flour, bread, butter, cereals, eggs – which they exchanged for industrial goods still found in the city on the black market, such as women's headscarves, chintz, string, sugar, soap and matches. Hungry citizens also made such trips in the opposite direction.

The Gurkha's dam Chintz won two of her eleven races including the Group Three C L Weld Park Stakes in 2008. Her dam Gold Dodger was a half-sister of Solemia and a close relative of Authorized. The colt was sent into training with Aidan O'Brien at Ballydoyle. Like many Coolmore horses, the official details of his ownership have changed from race to race: he has sometimes been listed as being the property of either Susan Magnier or Derrick Smith, whilst on other occasions he has been described as being the property a partnership of Smith, Magnier and Michael Tabor.

Madhavayapalem (Madapollam) is celebrated as one of the earliest places where the English established a factory and was famous for its trade in cloth. According to Alexander Hamilton's A New Account of the East Indies (1727): > "Next to Matchulipatam (Machilipatnam) is Narsipore, where the English had a > Factory for long Cloth, for the Use of their Factory of Matchulipatam, when > they manufactured Chintz there. It also affords good Teak Timber for > building, and has a fine deep River, but a dangerous Bar, which makes it > little frequented." The trade of the town has steadily declined since the abolition of the company's factory in 1827.

Pandong, a lady's cloak, simply meant any natural covering, like the growth on banana trunk's or a natal caul. In Panay, the word kurong, meaning curly hair, was applied to any short skirt or blouse; and some better ones made of imported chintz or calico were simply called by the name of the cloth itself, tabas. So, too, the wraparound skirt the Tagalogs called tapis was hardly considered a skirt at all: Visayans just called it habul (woven stuff) or halong (abaca) or even hulun (sash). The usual male headdress was the pudong, a turban, though in Panay both men and women also wore a head cloth or bandana called saplung.

Mangalore, Patrick, master, first appears in online resources with her arrival at Port Jackson on 1 November 1811 from Bengal. She left Port Jackson on 28 November with destination Bengal. She brought "Bengal sugar, fine Hyion tea, calicoes, blue bastas, wax and tallow candles, canvas sacks, shirts and trowsers of a superior quality, indigo; bandanna handkerchiefs, taffities of various colours, long cloth and punjum, salt-petre, pepper, spice, mirzapore and patna chintz, a small quantity of striped, and checked dureas, sugar candy, rice, table cloths and towels, fine chinlz Europe patterns. Madeira wine, window glass, which will be sold by the bag, chest, bale, or package".

He is most often seen in a pink shirt with a yellow necktie, but occasionally (Episode 7) appears in a naval undershirt (telnyashka) and in Episode 8, he appears in drag, impersonating the Snegurochka. In Episode 11 he wears a jacket in the beginning, but soon removes it when chasing the Hare. Not infrequently, he loses most of his clothes during the chase, going on in his chintz underpants only (those are a realistic depiction of Soviet-style underwear), though in episode 6, he retains only his shirt and pulls it down to cover up his "naked" hindquarters. Humorously, all of his clothing below the waist has a special opening for his tail.

The style started in Great Britain and evokes the type of decoration found in large country houses where there are worn and faded old chintz sofas and curtains, old paintwork and unassuming "good" taste. The end result of shabby chic is to achieve an elegant overall effect, as opposed to the sentimentally cute Pop- Victorian. Recycling old furniture and fabrics is an important aspect of the look and was especially popular with modern Bohemians and artisans that made up a sidelined counter-culture movement during the 1980s when expensive quality decor became very fashionable with the upper middle classes. The original shabby chic interiors were usually considered in themselves works of art.

The gallery is richly endowed with art of the Mughal Empire and the Marathas, including fine portraits of the emperors and other paintings and drawings, jade wine cups and gold spoons inset with emeralds, diamonds and rubies, also from this period are parts of buildings such as a jaali and pillars. India was a large producer of textiles, from dyed cotton chintz, muslin to rich embroidery work using gold and silver thread, coloured sequins and beads is displayed, as are carpets from Agra and Lahore. Examples of clothing are also displayed. In 1879–80, the collections of the defunct East India Company's India Museum were transferred to the V&A; and the British Museum.

The store’s opening in 1981 coincided with the arrival of the New Romantic music/cultural movement. Crolla's use of lavish fabrics and textures on waistcoats, ties, jackets and trousers, including chintz, paisley and velvet, attracted fans including Boy George, Princess Diana and Isabella Blow. It was also the antithesis of the austere palette and sculptural lines of Japanese brands gaining in popularity at the time, such as Yohji Yamamoto and Comme des Garcons. Initially, the company focused on menswear and, a year after the brand's launch, Ken Probst writing in The New York Times noted the renewed interest in British fashion created by the success of Brideshead Revisited and Chariots of Fire.

Cretonne was originally a strong, white fabric with a hempen warp and linen weft. The word is sometimes said to be derived from Creton, a village in Normandy where the manufacture of linen was carried on;some other serious sources mention that the cretonne was invented by Paul Creton, an inhabitant of Vimoutiers in the Pays d'Auge, Lower Normandy, France, a village very active in the textile industry in the past centuries. The word is now applied to a strong, printed cotton cloth, which is stouter than chintz but used for very much the same purposes. It is usually unglazed and may be printed on both sides and even with different patterns.

Canon Valpy has been credited with having injected "new life and a lightness of touch" in English style, as documented in interiors he painted in water-colours now preserved in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. "This inspired churchman", comments Carolyn McDowell, "put together a collection of 18c furniture, decorated his plain walls with clusters of low hung watercolors and prints, used a pretty chintz loose cover on the chairs, replaced indiscriminate clutter with a few well chosen ornaments and placed piles of books lying around for reading, rather than for show". Over the mantel in his Drawing Room is a pre-raphaelite portrait by Rossetti, revealing that he was "a very astute purchaser".McDowall, Carolyn. 2009.

Galenorn graduated from Evergreen State College, having majored in theater and creative writing.Galenorn, Jasmine, 2004, Legend of the Jade Dragon, back cover She is the author of over fifty novels and nonfiction books, including the Otherworld Series, the Fury Unbound Series, the Bewitching Bedlam Series, the Indigo Court Series, the Chintz 'n China Series, and the upcoming Wild Hunt Series. Publishers Weekly wrote about Witchling (2006), the first entry in the Otherworld series: "Though the plot can drag, effusive characters and pretty writing ('I whispered, and the stars heard me from behind their cloud cover and answered') will lead readers through to the much-anticipated final battle." She was with Berkley Publishing from 2002-2016 and has now branched out into indie/self publishing.

Mohman Khan Nawab of Cambay Mausoleum of 1st Wali–ul–Hind Moulai Abdullah, Khambat, Gujarat, 1050AD-1100AD. The city of Cambay was an important Indian manufacturing and trading center noted by Marco Polo and illustrated here in the 15th century. The king of Cambay (in present- day Gujarat) from "Figurae variae Asiae et Africae," a 16th-century Portuguese manuscript in the Casanatense Library in Rome (Codex Casanatense 1889). Cambay was formerly a flourishing city, the seat of an extensive trade, and celebrated for its manufactures of silk, chintz and gold stuffs. The Arab traveler al-Mas'udi visited the city in 915 AD, describing it as a very successful port; it was mentioned in 1293 by Marco Polo, who, calling it Cambaet, noted it as a busy port.

Broderie perse quilts were popular during this time and the majority of pierced or appliqued quilts made during the 1170–1800 period were medallion-style quilts (quilts with a central ornamental panel and one or more borders). Patchwork quilting in America dates to the 1770s, the decade the United States gained its independence from England. These late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century patchwork quilts often mixed wool, silk, linen, and cotton in the same piece, as well as mixing large-scale (often chintz) and small-scale (often calico) patterns. Some antique quilts made in North America have worn-out blankets or older quilts as the internal batting layer, quilted between new layers of fabric and thereby extending the usefulness of old material.

Her living rooms lived: They were friendly to the world..." In 1994, House Beautiful editor Lou Gropp said, "There is no question that Sister Parish was one of the biggest influences on decorating in the United States. She dominated the decorating of the 1970s and '80s, and many of her ideas that were fresh and new in the 1970s are now in the mainstream of American decorating." Signature elements of the Parish look included painted floors, Anglo-Franco furniture, painted furniture, chintz, needlepoint pillows, mattress ticking, hooked rugs, rag rugs, starched organdy, botanical prints, painted lampshades, white wicker, quilts, and baskets. According to a 2000 New York Times article, "If you have a quilt, you probably owe it to Mrs. Parish.

The English East India Company introduced Britain to cheap calico and chintz cloth after the restoration of the monarchy in the 1660s. Initially imported as a novelty side line, from its spice trading posts in Asia, the cheap colourful cloth proved popular and overtook the EIC's spice trade by value in the late 17th century. The EIC embraced the demand, particularly for calico, by expanding its factories in Asia and producing and importing cloth in bulk, creating competition for domestic woollen and linen textile producers. The impacted weavers, spinners, dyers, shepherds and farmers objected, with parliament petitioned, the EIC offices stormed by a mob, the fashion conscious assaulted for wearing imported cloth, making the calico question one of the major issues of National politics between the 1680s and the 1730s.

In 1965, she starred with her good friend Sheila Hancock in the sitcom The Bed-Sit Girl and appeared in the West End comedy Say Who You Are. In 1975, she co-starred with Reg Varney in a failed sitcom called Down the 'Gate and, in 1981, appeared in and co-wrote, the ITV comedy series Chintz. In 1985, she played Nurse in Romeo and Juliet with the Royal Shakespeare Company and her other credits with the RSC in the mid to late-1980s included Maria in Twelfth Night, First Witch in Macbeth, Glinda/Aunt Em in The Wizard of Oz and Parthy Ann in an Opera North version of Show Boat. In 2001 she returned to the RSC to play Mrs Medlock in its musical of The Secret Garden, directed by Adrian Noble.

The palace consists of a total of 150 rooms, the principal of which are panelled with wood block floors. Inside the corps de logis, it had been Blore's intention to follow the English 19th century tradition of distinct masculine and feminine suites of reception rooms; with a library, dining rooms and billiard room ensuite to left of the central hall for men, and a massive drawing room to the right for women. This layout of gender designated zones had become popular in Victorian England; however its intention was not to segregate the sexes, but more to define furnishings – the male zones tended to have heavy oak furniture and dark 'Turkey' carpets, whereas the female zones would have more delicate furnishings of rosewood, Aubusson carpets and chintz soft furnishings.Girouard, Life in the English Country House, p292.

A later secondary wing, known as the Shuvalov wing (named after Vorontsov's son-in-law, Count Shuvalov) was not part of Blore's original plan and designed by his assistant, William Hunt. There is now a museum comprising several rooms most notable of which are the blue room, chintz room, dining room, and the Chinese cabinet. The museum covers the first floor's first eight rooms, featuring more than 11,000 exhibits, including engravings of the 18th century, paintings from the 16th through 19th centuries, including those depicting Crimean scenarios by Armenian seascape painter Ivan Aivazovsky, as well as furniture crafted by Russian wood masters from the 19th century. The library, the last of the palace's rooms to be completed, is based on Sir Walter Scott's own library, revealing the personal friendship that Blore had with Scott.

Furthermore, he was the son of Ueno Toshinojō (also known as Ueno Shunnojō) (1790-1851), a merchant in the employ of the Shimazu clan who in 1848 imported possibly the first camera in the country, a daguerreotype camera for the Shimazu daimyō, Nariakira. Ueno Hikoma first studied Chinese classics; then in 1852, not long after his father's death, he entered the Nagasaki Medical College with a view to studying chemistry in order to help him run the family business, dealing in nitre and chintz dyeing. He eventually studied chemistry under the Dutch naval medical officer Johannes L. C. Pompe van Meerdervoort (1829–1908) after the latter's arrival in 1857. Pompe van Meerdervoort, who had a camera and photography manual though little experience as a photographer, also instructed Ueno Hikoma in photography.

The office of Montem Poet was held from the 1770s until 1834 by Herbert Stockhore of Windsor, an eccentric individual who had begun his career as a bricklayer. Arrayed in a tunic and trousers of patchwork, an old military coat, and a chintz-covered conical head-dress, with rows of fringe on it like the crowns on a papal tiara, he drove about in a donkey-cart, reciting his Ode, and flourishing copies of it in the air to attract the attention of possible customers. After his death, there was a contest for the vacant office, and a certain Edward Irwin was elected, the boys recording their votes as they came out of Church one afternoon.LYTE, Henry Churchill Maxwell, A History of Eton College (1440–1875), London, 1875.

In 2010 to celebrate Neighbours 25th anniversary, BSkyB, a British satellite broadcasting company, profiled 25 characters of which they believed were the most memorable in the series history. Jim is in the list and describing him they state: "Jim lives on in the collective memory thanks to people declaring whenever Alan Dale is on TV, 'look, Jim Robinson is on Torchwood/24/Ugly Betty, LOL.' Push them harder, and they'll probably just about remember Jim dying of a heart attack in the chintz-tastic Robinson home in 1993. Such is the fate of a family man who didn't really have memorable storylines outside of his four walls, but he did bequeath a set of Soapland's finest, most gently mental children, including villainous 'business' man Paul, occasional stripper Lucy, not-his-daughter Julie, and not-his-monobrow Todd Landers".

The character's leotards were emblazoned with just a large "D" and were fashioned by his wife Eunice from their chintz sofa. The character first gained attention in mid-1975 when he formed a tag team with TV newcomer Giant Haystacks and together they became notorious for crushing blue eye opponents. However, during this period, Daddy began to be cheered for the first time since his comeback when he entered into a feud with masked villain Kendo Nagasaki, especially when he pulled off Nagasaki's mask during a televised contest from Solihull in December 1975 (although the unmasked Nagasaki quickly won the bout moments later). By the middle of 1977, Daddy had completed his transformation into a blue eye, a change cemented by the breakdown of his tag team with Haystacks and a subsequent feud between the two which would last until the early 1990s.

Not only the family bonds but also those of friendship and tentative romance are traced with delicate economy and nuance." Carina Chocano of the Los Angeles Times stated the film "nestles comfortably in that Scottish-Celtic niche of cozy, overcast, working-class fairy tales that seem to smell faintly of fried fish and beer ... Not that Dear Frankie aspires to any kind of hardened realism. On the contrary, it caters to a particular type of Anglophile fantasy, the kind where the china doesn't match and the chintz is dingy, but people look out for one another and love sprouts easily in the humidity ... [Its] surprises are few and low-key, but the story wraps up nicely. In that way, the movie is not unlike the fish dinners Frankie ... procures from Marie - slightly soggy and bland, but as warm, starchy and satisfying as a box of fries.

Each is inlaid overall with panels depicting buildings, trees and flowers, surrounded by borders of scrolling foliage, with triangular open pediment above a frieze drawer and three pigeon-holes and three drawers flanked by doors enclosing two pigeon-holes and three drawers, above a hinged flap enclosing a fitted interior of pigeon-holes and drawers divided by column-drawers, above a long drawer fitted with divisions, on bracket feet, the interior and carcase in satinwood, on a rounded rectangular stand with solid three-quarter gallery above a reeded frieze, on spirally-fluted tapering legs and ring-turned tapering feet, minor variations in size and decoration, the pediment now positioned at the rear edge. These engraved bureau-cabinets, serving as portable desk jewel-case and dressing-box, are designed as a miniature 'desk and bookcase' with Roman-temple pediment. Engraved tablets, wreathed by floral 'chintz' fashioned borders, portray magnificent villa landscapes.

The imported Calico and chintz garments competed with, and acted as a substitute for indigenous wool and the linen produce, resulting in local weavers, spinners, dyers, shepherds and farmers petitioning their MP's and in turn the United Kingdom government for a ban on the importation, and later the sale of woven cotton goods. Which they eventually achieved via the 1700 and 1721 Calico Acts. The acts banned the importation and later the sale of finished pure cotton produce, but did not restrict the importation of raw cotton, or sale or production of Fustian. The exemption of raw cotton saw two thousand bales of cotton being imported annually, from Asia and the Americas, and forming the basis of a new indigenous industry, initially producing Fustian for the domestic market, though more importantly triggering the development of a series of mechanised spinning and weaving technologies, to process the material.

A hint of his collection skills is given in a printed catalog of the Alexander Wilson Drake Collection, which was sold at public auction in 1913. The collection included “…Antique samplers and needlework, fragments of old printed chintz, bandboxes, wallpaper, glass bottles, pottery, china, pewter, engraved pledge glasses, antique silver cups and ladles, an extraordinary collection of old finger rings, silver, enameled and pearl snuff boxes, patch boxes and vinaigrettes, old paintings and prints.”The Famous Collections Formed by Mr. A. W. Drake (Part 1), to be Sold at Unrestricted Public Sale Under the Management of the American Art Association, Madison Square South, New York, March 5th, 1913. US Geological Survey Library, Kunz Collection Twelfth Night revel of the Century Association, in the guise of an itinerant Italian fortune-teller Dr. George Frederick Kunz wrote: “The extensive and remarkable collection of the late Alexander Wilson Drake, which was disposed of by the American Art Galleries of New York, March 10th to 17th, 1913, comprised a fine collection of finger rings, illustrating a large variety of forms and periods.

American costume designer Aline Bernstein recalled staying at Arthur and Julia Frankau's house when her father, the New York actor Joseph Frankau (who was Frankau's first cousin) was performing in London: "It was a perfect Georgian house, everything in it had beauty and order; the design of the furniture, the chintz, the arrangement of flowers, the way food was passed at table, and the tea service. It was brilliantly clean, the silver and old woods looked as though they not only had just been polished, but had been polished for hundreds of years."Aline Bernstein, An Actor's Daughter, A. A. Knopf 1941, Ch. 7 She also remembered that Arthur and Julia's children "all lived upstairs like a separate little family, almost like a lot of little lepers, it seemed to me." In 1903, the death of Edwin Frankau and the success of Frank Danby's latest novel, Pigs in Clover, provided Arthur and Julia Frankau with the means to move house once more, to 11 Clarges Street (Mayfair), and to acquire a holiday home on the Sussex coast named Clover Cottage (now No. 13 South Cliff, Eastbourne).