Tambour Floral, Forest Floor / Pomegranate Fabric by the Yard
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
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- Most orders arrive in 2 to 3 weeks
Pomegranate blooms on a deep forest floor ground, with eucalyptus in the leaves. Green and pomegranate sit opposite one another, but the two are close in lightness, so contrast is low and the blooms settle into the ground. The eucalyptus foliage reads pale against the dark green, and up close honey holds the flower centers, with pomegranate carrying through the smaller blooms.
A fragment of a tambour-embroidered coverlet, held by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (accession BK-1980-773-B), is the source for this design. The fragment was worked in Gujarat c. 1720 – c. 1740, using a hooked needle pulled through twill-woven cotton to build up silk chain-stitch in continuous curving lines. The object measures 173 cm in height; its width was not recorded. What survived is a field of volutes and stylized flowers worked in polychrome silk on a cotton ground. Printed to order.
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The Source
Great pattern doesn’t ask for permission; it stops you. In Art Objects, Jeanette Winterson described a painting with “more power to stop me than I had power to walk on.”
The source object—worked in Gujarat c. 1720 – c. 1740—demands that same attention. An embroiderer stretched cotton twill across a frame and pulled silk thread through the ground with a fine hooked needle, building continuous chain stitches line by line. What survived of that coverlet is a single 173 cm fragment, gifted to the Rijksmuseum in 1980 by the Stichting Twickel.
The original object is silk worked into cotton; the printed product is ink. Ink isn’t silk, but the line and the spacing translate directly. The colour is ours — the colorways are built from the Vintage Botanica palette, not sampled from the object.
(Catalogued under Rijksmuseum accession BK-1980-773-B. Published in Asian Splendour: Company Art in the Rijksmuseum, p. 57, fig. 35. Public domain.)
The Specifications
- Source: Fragment of an embroidered coverlet. Cotton twill with silk embroidery. Gujarat, c. 1720 – c. 1740.
- Holding institution: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Accession BK-1980-773-B.
- Maker: Anonymous. Recorded maker role: embroiderer.
- Technique: Tambour embroidery, worked with a hooked needle. Twill ground.
- Dimensions: Height 173 cm. Width not recorded.
- Acquisition: Gift of the Stichting Twickel, 1980.
- Rights: Public domain.
- Repeat: 24 in. × 38.3 in.
- Layout: Straight repeat.
The Fabric
Decor Chenille
A short, dense pile with a velvet-like surface on a firm woven ground. Fine striations catch the light as it moves across the room, deepening the color. Substantial weight keeps a clean line on upholstery and gives tailored drapery a decisive fall.
- Composition: 100% polyester
- Width: 56 in printable (57 in full)
- Weight: 400 gsm
- For: Upholstery, cushions, headboards, heavy drapery
Cotton Linen
A fine, even linen-cotton weave. Color prints cleanly while the woven surface remains visible, keeping solid grounds from going flat without softening fine linework. Light in the hand, it falls in narrow, supple folds and filters light rather than blocking it.
- Composition: 55% linen, 45% cotton
- Width: 54 in printable
- Weight: 250 gsm
- For: Upholstery, curtains, table linens, pillows
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