Mughal Poppy, Linen / Verdigris Wallpaper
Peel and Stick
- Construction: Non-woven with self-adhesive backing
- Finish: Linen texture, matte
- Thickness: 9.3 mil
- Weight: 194 gsm
- Application: Peel and stick, no paste needed
- Seam: 0.75 in. overlap for pattern matching; the overlap remains visible after installation
- Removability: RemovableFire rating: Class A (ASTM E84)
- Material health: PVC-free, phthalate-free, low-VOC inks
- Recommended use: Smooth interior walls in low- to moderate-traffic areas. Not recommended for high-moisture spaces such as bathrooms.
Clay-Coated
- Construction: Non-woven
- Thickness: 9 mil
- Weight: 180 gsm
- Application: Paste-the-paper
- Seam: 0.75 in. overlap for pattern matching, double-cut during installation for a flush seam
- Fire rating: Class A (ASTM E84)
- Material health: PVC-free, phthalate-free, low-VOC inks
- Recommended use: Residential interiors, including bedrooms, powder rooms, dining rooms, entryways, and nurseries
All of our fabric and wallpaper is printed just for you, one order at a time. Nothing sits on a shelf waiting, and nothing is mass-produced.
Start with a sample. Tape the wallpaper to the wall, drape the fabric over the chair it's meant for, and see how the color and texture look in morning and evening light. Most decisions settle themselves within a few days.
Once your order arrives, we want you to love it. If you don't, for any reason, let us know. This applies to all retail orders. You have 60 days from delivery to reach out, and we'll reprint your items or you can return them for a refund. Your choice.
To start, email connect@vintagebotanica.com with your order number and a quick note about why you'd like a reprint or return. If something arrived damaged or misprinted, please include photos.
Hung wallpaper and cut fabric are still eligible, as long as the product comes back to us. Every reprint or refund requires the original product to be returned. Return shipping is yours to cover unless the product is defective, in which case we cover it.
Refunds go back to your original payment method within 5 business days after we receive your return. They cover the purchased items plus tax. If the product is defective, we also refund your original shipping.
We currently ship within the United States, including Alaska, Hawaii, and US territories. We ship to APO and FPO addresses and to PO boxes where the carrier allows it.
- Standard shipping is $9.99 per order for fabric and wallpaper
- Production takes 5 to 10 business days
- Transit takes 2 to 7 business days after your order ships
- Most orders arrive 2 to 3 weeks after you place them
Delivery to Alaska, Hawaii, US territories, and military addresses may take longer than the estimate above.
You’ll get tracking by email as soon as your order ships. Orders with multiple items may arrive in more than one package as different products are printed in different locations.
Weather, holidays, and carrier delays happen. If your order is running past the estimate, get in touch and we’ll look into it.
Lost or missing packages
If tracking shows delivered but your package isn’t there, check around your delivery spot and with neighbors first. Packages often turn up within a day. If it’s still missing, email us and we’ll open a claim with the carrier. If the carrier confirms the package is lost, we’ll reprint your order or refund it.
Questions
Email us at connect@vintagebotanica.com. We’re a small team and we read everything.
- Most orders arrive in 2 to 3 weeks
A late seventeenth-century dastarkana—an Indian summer carpet hand-drawn in kalamkari and conserved at The Metropolitan Museum of Art—was the starting point for Mughal Poppy. Drawn down to three-fifths scale, every hand-painted line was translated to preserve the painterly look of the original kalam. Ground takes three-quarters of the surface, leaving wide, breathing fields around each plant so the density stays inside the motif without closing a room in.
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The Source
Someone cut the original up. Twelve feet of hand-painted poppies, sliced into puzzle-piece shapes to fit around a column, or a tent post, or a smaller room—no one wrote down which. What reached the museum in 1982 was a little under half: plain-weave cotton from the Mughal period, mordant-painted and resist-dyed, the poppies drawn by hand rather than stamped from a block. Green was made by painting yellow over indigo. On most surviving kalamkaris the yellow is gone and only the blue is left; on this one it held.
It came in with the Alice and Nasli Heeramaneck Collection, a gift of Alice Heeramaneck, and then sat for thirty-two years because the border was too fragile to handle. Conservation ran past a hundred hours—the binding removed, tideline stains lifted with poultice, the cloth humidified flat until the creases relaxed. It went up in Gallery 464 in 2015, in the Department of Islamic Art, on a slanted board held by insect pins, because no one was willing to put a stitch through it.
The conservators chose not to join the fragments back together or reconstruct what was lost. That was deliberate, out of respect for what the object had actually lived through. The carpet as a whole stays broken. But the design was made to be lived with—walked on, sat beside, used—and it spent thirty-two years in a drawer. The fragments held a complete plant and the rhythm that placed it. That was enough to bring it back out.
It will never be a floorspread again. The poppies stop abruptly on a slant board in Gallery 464. Now they keep going—row after row, past the corner, the way they did before someone cut it up.
The Specifications
- Source: Fragment of a floorspread, late seventeenth century, India. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 1982.239a
- Repeat: 24 in (12 in half-drop)
The Wallpaper
Peel and Stick
A self-adhesive paper with a linen-like texture. The texture shows through the print and gives the color a quiet movement, most noticeable across a full wall. It goes up without paste and comes down more easily when the room is ready for something new.
- Install: Peel and stick, no paste
- Walls: Smooth, clean, fully cured paint
- For: Rentals and rooms where paste-free installation or easier removal matters
Clay-Coated
A traditional unpasted paper with a smooth, soft matte finish. Color sits cleanly on the clay surface, so the finest lines of the pattern stay sharp. It gives a room the familiar finish of traditionally hung wallpaper.
- Install: Unpasted; paste is applied to the back of each panel before hanging
- For: Traditional installations, including full rooms and powder rooms away from direct water
Start with a sample. Tape it to the wall and live with it for a few days, in morning light and again in the evening. Watch how the color and surface settle into the room, then choose the paper you'll live with.
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