{"title":"Indian Mughal Wallpaper","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"madrasi-chintz-dusty-blue-rose-quartz-wallpaper","title":"Madrasi Chintz, Dusty Blue \/ Rose Quartz Wallpaper","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom:0.6em;\"\u003eCollection: The Textile Museum Collection (GW 6.112)\u003cbr\u003eOrigin: Coromandel Coast (Madras), India | Date: 17th Century\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom:0.6em;\"\u003eOriginating from 17th-century Madras along India's famed Coromandel Coast, this pattern is a masterclass in early Indian textile art. Originally crafted as a painted cotton curtain, the design features closely repeating buti (botanical sprigs) with distinct spiky leaf bases and delicate, nodding blossoms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cdetails style=\"margin:0;\"\u003e\n\u003csummary style=\"font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;cursor:pointer;margin:0;\"\u003eRead More...\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrue to historic chintz production, the original piece was created using a complex multi-step process of hand-drawn wax resists and painted mordants prior to indigo and madder dyeing. 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On most surviving kalamkaris the yellow is gone and only the blue is left; on this one it held.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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. 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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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInstall:\u003c\/strong\u003e Peel and stick, no paste\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWalls:\u003c\/strong\u003e Smooth, clean, fully cured paint\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Rentals and rooms where paste-free installation or easier removal matters\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003ch4\u003eClay-Coated\u003c\/h4\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInstall:\u003c\/strong\u003e Unpasted; paste is applied to the back of each panel before hanging\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Traditional installations, including full rooms and powder rooms away from direct water\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eStart with a sample. Tape it to the wall and live with it for a few days, in morning light and again in the evening. 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On most surviving kalamkaris the yellow is gone and only the blue is left; on this one it held.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"margin-top:1.2em;\"\u003eThe Specifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSource:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fragment of a floorspread, late seventeenth century, India. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 1982.239a\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRepeat:\u003c\/strong\u003e 24 in (12 in half-drop)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe Wallpaper\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003ch4\u003ePeel and Stick\u003c\/h4\u003e \u003cp\u003eA self-adhesive paper with a linen-like texture. 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The pattern reads as a rhythm of light blossoms and pointed forms rather than a sharply drawn grid. Move in and the darker stems, leaves and connecting motifs come forward, and the full structure of each medallion becomes easier to see. The 8-inch scale keeps those units legible. Available as wallpaper and fabric by the yard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom:0.6em;\"\u003eThis surviving Varanasi fragment combines silk and metallic-wrapped silk in a compound weave. 'Varanasi Medallion' translates that woven structure into flat colour at an 8-inch half-drop repeat. Each flowering plant sits inside its own pointed border, with smaller floral forms between them. The border, rather than the flower, organizes the field.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdetails style=\"margin:0;\"\u003e\n\u003csummary style=\"font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;cursor:pointer;margin:0;\"\u003eRead More...\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"margin-top:1.2em;\"\u003eThe Source\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe enclosure and the plant it holds recall the boteh — the form commonly known in English as paisley — but the characteristic boteh curves at the tip, while this enclosure rises to a point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fragment was woven in Varanasi, India. It measures fifteen inches by fourteen and a half, and combines silk with metallic-wrapped silk in a compound woven structure. It entered The Textile Museum Collection as the gift of Sheridan Pressey Collins and is held as accession 2019.7.4.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe museum record is unusually spare. There is no recorded date. No maker is named. 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Layout: drop match, half-drop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMotif scale:\u003c\/b\u003e [PENDING MEASUREMENT].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReferences:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Indian Boteh Motif\u003c\/i\u003e, RISD Museum, 27 January – 30 July 2017, text by Kate Irvin. John Irwin, \u003ci\u003eThe Kashmir Shawl\u003c\/i\u003e, Victoria and Albert Museum Monograph No. 29 (HMSO, 1973).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe Wallpaper\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003ch4\u003ePeel and Stick\u003c\/h4\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 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. 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It gives a room the familiar finish of traditionally hung wallpaper.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInstall:\u003c\/strong\u003e Unpasted; paste is applied to the back of each panel before hanging\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Traditional installations, including full rooms and powder rooms away from direct water\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eStart with a sample. Tape it to the wall and live with it for a few days, in morning light and again in the evening. 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Originally crafted as a painted cotton curtain, the design features closely repeating buti (botanical sprigs) with distinct spiky leaf bases and delicate, nodding blossoms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cdetails style=\"margin:0;\"\u003e\n\u003csummary style=\"font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;cursor:pointer;margin:0;\"\u003eRead More...\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrue to historic chintz production, the original piece was created using a complex multi-step process of hand-drawn wax resists and painted mordants prior to indigo and madder dyeing. The result is a rhythmically balanced, refined floral repeat that defined the 17th-century global trade in luxury painted cottons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"margin-top:1.2em;\"\u003eExhibition \u0026amp; Publication History\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA celebrated work in The Textile Museum's permanent collection, this fragment has been featured in four major exhibitions:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaster Dyers to the World: Technique and Trade in Early Indian Dyed Cotton Textiles (1982–1983)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOld Yarns with a new Twist: Familiar Favorites from the Textile Museum's Collection (1984)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeldom Seen: Director's Choice from the Museum's Collections (2006)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1,000 Years of Indian Textiles (2022)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe original textile is also documented and illustrated in key scholarship, including Mattiebelle Gittinger's landmark study Master Dyers to the World (1982), Walter Endrei's The First Hundred Years of European Textile-printing (1998), and Rahul Jain's Textiles and Garments at the Jaipur Court (2016).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe Wallpaper\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003ch4\u003ePeel and Stick\u003c\/h4\u003e \u003cp\u003eA self-adhesive paper with a linen-like texture. 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On most surviving kalamkaris the yellow is gone and only the blue is left; on this one it held.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"margin-top:1.2em;\"\u003eThe Specifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSource:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fragment of a floorspread, late seventeenth century, India. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 1982.239a\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRepeat:\u003c\/strong\u003e 24 in (12 in half-drop)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe Wallpaper\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003ch4\u003ePeel and Stick\u003c\/h4\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInstall:\u003c\/strong\u003e Peel and stick, no paste\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWalls:\u003c\/strong\u003e Smooth, clean, fully cured paint\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Rentals and rooms where paste-free installation or easier removal matters\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003ch4\u003eClay-Coated\u003c\/h4\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 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. 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The enclosing shapes read clearly at distance while the plants stay soft; the smaller blossoms and interior linework only resolve close up. The open ground keeps the repeat from feeling dense even though the medallions are closely ordered. At 8 inches each unit registers on its own. Available as wallpaper and fabric by the yard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom:0.6em;\"\u003eThis surviving Varanasi fragment combines silk and metallic-wrapped silk in a compound weave. 'Varanasi Medallion' translates that woven structure into flat colour at an 8-inch half-drop repeat. Each flowering plant sits inside its own pointed border, with smaller floral forms between them. The border, rather than the flower, organizes the field.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdetails style=\"margin:0;\"\u003e\n\u003csummary style=\"font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;cursor:pointer;margin:0;\"\u003eRead More...\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"margin-top:1.2em;\"\u003eThe Source\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe enclosure and the plant it holds recall the boteh — the form commonly known in English as paisley — but the characteristic boteh curves at the tip, while this enclosure rises to a point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fragment was woven in Varanasi, India. It measures fifteen inches by fourteen and a half, and combines silk with metallic-wrapped silk in a compound woven structure. It entered The Textile Museum Collection as the gift of Sheridan Pressey Collins and is held as accession 2019.7.4.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe museum record is unusually spare. There is no recorded date. No maker is named. 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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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cdetails style=\"margin:0;\"\u003e\n\u003csummary style=\"font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;cursor:pointer;margin:0;\"\u003eRead More...\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"margin-top:1.2em;\"\u003eThe Source\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomeone 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"margin-top:1.2em;\"\u003eThe Specifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSource:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fragment of a floorspread, late seventeenth century, India. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 1982.239a\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRepeat:\u003c\/strong\u003e 24 in (12 in half-drop)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe Wallpaper\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003ch4\u003ePeel and Stick\u003c\/h4\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInstall:\u003c\/strong\u003e Peel and stick, no paste\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWalls:\u003c\/strong\u003e Smooth, clean, fully cured paint\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Rentals and rooms where paste-free installation or easier removal matters\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003ch4\u003eClay-Coated\u003c\/h4\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInstall:\u003c\/strong\u003e Unpasted; paste is applied to the back of each panel before hanging\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Traditional installations, including full rooms and powder rooms away from direct water\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eStart with a sample. Tape it to the wall and live with it for a few days, in morning light and again in the evening. 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The outlines and blossoms set a clean rhythm across a room; the stems, leaves and smaller flowers between the medallions add the detail back at close range. At 8 inches each medallion remains distinct across a broad surface. Available as wallpaper and fabric by the yard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom:0.6em;\"\u003eThis surviving Varanasi fragment combines silk and metallic-wrapped silk in a compound weave. 'Varanasi Medallion' translates that woven structure into flat colour at an 8-inch half-drop repeat. Each flowering plant sits inside its own pointed border, with smaller floral forms between them. The border, rather than the flower, organizes the field.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdetails style=\"margin:0;\"\u003e\n\u003csummary style=\"font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;cursor:pointer;margin:0;\"\u003eRead More...\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"margin-top:1.2em;\"\u003eThe Source\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe enclosure and the plant it holds recall the boteh — the form commonly known in English as paisley — but the characteristic boteh curves at the tip, while this enclosure rises to a point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fragment was woven in Varanasi, India. It measures fifteen inches by fourteen and a half, and combines silk with metallic-wrapped silk in a compound woven structure. It entered The Textile Museum Collection as the gift of Sheridan Pressey Collins and is held as accession 2019.7.4.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe museum record is unusually spare. There is no recorded date. No maker is named. The museum record does not name the motif.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRequest a sample.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"margin-top:1.2em;\"\u003eThe Specifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSource:\u003c\/b\u003e Textile fragment, Varanasi, India. Silk and metallic-wrapped silk; supplementary-weft patterning, twill weave, compound weave. 38.10 × 36.83 cm (15 × 14½ in.). Gift of Sheridan Pressey Collins. The Textile Museum Collection, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, accession 2019.7.4.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDate:\u003c\/b\u003e not recorded by the museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRepeat:\u003c\/b\u003e 8 in. 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It goes up without paste and comes down more easily when the room is ready for something new.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInstall:\u003c\/strong\u003e Peel and stick, no paste\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWalls:\u003c\/strong\u003e Smooth, clean, fully cured paint\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Rentals and rooms where paste-free installation or easier removal matters\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003ch4\u003eClay-Coated\u003c\/h4\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInstall:\u003c\/strong\u003e Unpasted; paste is applied to the back of each panel before hanging\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Traditional installations, including full rooms and powder rooms away from direct water\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eStart 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/details\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e©Vintage Botanica","brand":"NeoTex.cloud-2","offers":[{"title":"Clay-Coated Wallpaper \/ Sample (8in x 10in)","offer_id":67648821395592,"sku":"164980-NTX-1255-4028-STX","price":2.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Clay-Coated Wallpaper \/ Roll (24in x 12ft)","offer_id":67648821428360,"sku":"164980-NTX-1255-4027-STX","price":139.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Peel \u0026 Stick Wallpaper \/ Sample (8in x 10in)","offer_id":67648821461128,"sku":"164980-NTX-860-4028-STX","price":2.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Peel \u0026 Stick Wallpaper \/ Roll (24in x 12ft)","offer_id":67648821493896,"sku":"164980-NTX-860-4027-STX","price":159.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/2914\/5480\/files\/wallpaper_roll_mockup_150_20261009_201823_0db26fa1-d683-4c06-96fa-67294d5f5058.webp?v=1791578387"},{"product_id":"varanasi-medallion-sandstone-ivory-wallpaper","title":"Varanasi Medallion, Sandstone \/ Ivory Wallpaper","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom:0.6em;\"\u003eSage-green borders sit at moderate contrast against a pale sandstone ground, and the pink flowers inside stay close to the ground in value. The pointed medallions establish the pattern first; the plants and the smaller blossoms between them come clear as you approach. The border is defined without becoming heavy, leaving enough quiet ground around the drawing for the individual forms to stay distinct. At 8 inches the medallions have presence without reading oversized. Available as wallpaper and fabric by the yard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom:0.6em;\"\u003eThis surviving Varanasi fragment combines silk and metallic-wrapped silk in a compound weave. 'Varanasi Medallion' translates that woven structure into flat colour at an 8-inch half-drop repeat. Each flowering plant sits inside its own pointed border, with smaller floral forms between them. 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The museum record does not name the motif.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRequest a sample.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"margin-top:1.2em;\"\u003eThe Specifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSource:\u003c\/b\u003e Textile fragment, Varanasi, India. Silk and metallic-wrapped silk; supplementary-weft patterning, twill weave, compound weave. 38.10 × 36.83 cm (15 × 14½ in.). Gift of Sheridan Pressey Collins. The Textile Museum Collection, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, accession 2019.7.4.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDate:\u003c\/b\u003e not recorded by the museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRepeat:\u003c\/b\u003e 8 in. 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It goes up without paste and comes down more easily when the room is ready for something new.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInstall:\u003c\/strong\u003e Peel and stick, no paste\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWalls:\u003c\/strong\u003e Smooth, clean, fully cured paint\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Rentals and rooms where paste-free installation or easier removal matters\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003ch4\u003eClay-Coated\u003c\/h4\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInstall:\u003c\/strong\u003e Unpasted; paste is applied to the back of each panel before hanging\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Traditional installations, including full rooms and powder rooms away from direct water\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eStart 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/details\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e©Vintage Botanica","brand":"NeoTex.cloud-2","offers":[{"title":"Clay-Coated Wallpaper \/ Sample (8in x 10in)","offer_id":67648821526664,"sku":"164983-NTX-1255-4028-STX","price":2.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Clay-Coated Wallpaper \/ Roll (24in x 12ft)","offer_id":67648821559432,"sku":"164983-NTX-1255-4027-STX","price":139.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Peel \u0026 Stick Wallpaper \/ Sample (8in x 10in)","offer_id":67648821592200,"sku":"164983-NTX-860-4028-STX","price":2.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Peel \u0026 Stick Wallpaper \/ Roll (24in x 12ft)","offer_id":67648821624968,"sku":"164983-NTX-860-4027-STX","price":159.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/2914\/5480\/files\/wallpaper_roll_mockup_150_20261009_201622.webp?v=1791578387"},{"product_id":"varanasi-medallion-forest-floor-ivory-wallpaper","title":"Varanasi Medallion, Forest Floor \/ Ivory Wallpaper","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom:0.6em;\"\u003eRose-pink flowers and pale borders sit against a deep green ground, with the darker stems and interior flourishes settling back into the field. 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