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The options are truly endless and range from chinoiserie to chintz to cheeky block prints.
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Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 2 Sep. 2025
The British already had experience mass-producing cotton calico with prints such as chintz, and Dutch potters in Delft had long mastered the art of copying Chinese blue-and-white ceramics.
—H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 6 Aug. 2025
The report goes on to say, The music lovers began to gather at 7:30 p.m. Since the drawing room was filled with chairs, Mary Sykes Cahan of the Metropolitan Museum and Henry J. Heinz 2d of the 57 Varieties took refuge among the chintzes in the sun room.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 23 Dec. 2024
The living room is dominated by a large sofa covered in an English chintz, with Madeleine Castaing coffee tables on a pink Romanian rug.
—Ellie Pithers, Vogue, 31 July 2024
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Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 2 Sep. 2025
The British already had experience mass-producing cotton calico with prints such as chintz, and Dutch potters in Delft had long mastered the art of copying Chinese blue-and-white ceramics.
—H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 6 Aug. 2025
The report goes on to say, The music lovers began to gather at 7:30 p.m. Since the drawing room was filled with chairs, Mary Sykes Cahan of the Metropolitan Museum and Henry J. Heinz 2d of the 57 Varieties took refuge among the chintzes in the sun room.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 23 Dec. 2024
The living room is dominated by a large sofa covered in an English chintz, with Madeleine Castaing coffee tables on a pink Romanian rug.
—Ellie Pithers, Vogue, 31 July 2024
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“Chintz.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chintz. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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chintz
noun
: a shiny cotton fabric with a flowery pattern printed on it
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