{"product_id":"chintamani-imperial-eucalyptus-flax-wallpaper","title":"Chintamani Imperial, Eucalyptus \/ Flax Wallpaper","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom:0.6em;\"\u003e'Chintamani Imperial' begins in a fragment of early Ottoman brocaded velvet, woven in an imperial workshop at Bursa. Held in the Cleveland Museum of Art, with a second example at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, each jewel was carefully redrawn by hand — a ring inside a ring, three dots at its centre — to retain the character of the original.\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\u003eThe cloth was made to be the most expensive thing in the room, and it succeeded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBursa was the Ottoman Empire's first capital and the centre of its silk trade — Iranian silk and domestic both, moving through the city and onto looms that turned it into the costliest cloth the empire produced. This piece came off a loom in an imperial workshop. The crimson pile is almost twice as dense as later monochrome velvets: density was the luxury, the part you could see from the doorway before you were close enough to see the pattern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWoven into it, the çintamani — Sanskrit for a jewel that grants what you wish for. In Ottoman hands it became three discs, a ring inside a ring with three dots at the centre, and two wavy bands beneath. It turns up so often in Ottoman art that Cleveland's own record calls it a favoured motif and possibly an unofficial imperial emblem. Possibly, because no sultan ever decreed it. It was never law. The court simply kept choosing it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen the cloth came apart. What survives are fragments in two American cities — one in Cleveland, one in New York, the Met's piece twenty-eight inches by eleven and a half. That one was sold to the museum in 1915 by Indjoudjian Frères, dealers in Paris, and it went on show that same winter in the Special Exhibition of Textiles. Bought in one season, hung in the next. Four thousand miles from Bursa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe velvet was cut down and the empire is gone. The emblem it carried was never granted by anyone and never taken away.\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 Brocaded silk velvet, Bursa, Turkey. The Cleveland Museum of Art, accession 1943.313\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSecond example:\u003c\/strong\u003e Silk Velvet Fragment with Tiger-Stripe and 'Cintamani' Design, 16th century, Turkey. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 15.125.6, Gallery 460\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRepeat:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8 in horizontal, 10 in vertical, half-drop\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReferences:\u003c\/strong\u003e Louise W. Mackie, \u003cem\u003eSymbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th–21st Century\u003c\/em\u003e (Cleveland Museum of Art \/ Yale, 2015), p. 291, fig. 8.10\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. 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":67648813006984,"sku":"164343-NTX-1255-4028-STX","price":2.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Clay-Coated Wallpaper \/ Roll (24in x 12ft)","offer_id":67648813039752,"sku":"164343-NTX-1255-4027-STX","price":139.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Peel \u0026 Stick Wallpaper \/ Sample (8in x 10in)","offer_id":67648813072520,"sku":"164343-NTX-860-4028-STX","price":2.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Peel \u0026 Stick Wallpaper \/ Roll (24in x 12ft)","offer_id":67648813105288,"sku":"164343-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_201736.webp?v=1791578367","url":"https:\/\/vintagebotanica.com\/products\/chintamani-imperial-eucalyptus-flax-wallpaper","provider":"vintagebotanica","version":"1.0","type":"link"}