{"product_id":"mughal-poppy-travertine-rose-quartz-wallpaper","title":"Mughal Poppy, Travertine \/ Rose Quartz Wallpaper","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom:0.6em;\"\u003eA 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.\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. 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":67648822706312,"sku":"164971-NTX-1255-4028-STX","price":2.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Clay-Coated Wallpaper \/ Roll (24in x 12ft)","offer_id":67648822739080,"sku":"164971-NTX-1255-4027-STX","price":139.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Peel \u0026 Stick Wallpaper \/ Sample (8in x 10in)","offer_id":67648822771848,"sku":"164971-NTX-860-4028-STX","price":2.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Peel \u0026 Stick Wallpaper \/ Roll (24in x 12ft)","offer_id":67648822804616,"sku":"164971-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_201607_37ad543d-19ec-45bd-937f-8c66a368bdc7.webp?v=1791578390","url":"https:\/\/vintagebotanica.com\/products\/mughal-poppy-travertine-rose-quartz-wallpaper","provider":"vintagebotanica","version":"1.0","type":"link"}