Brightly printed cotton fabrics from India became fashionable first for use in the home, particularly as bed curtains. However, by the end of the seventeenth century the comfortable and washable fabric became a staple for women’s dresses and men’s banyans, an informal indoor robe.

Pattern: 
Quilted Fabric
Maker: 
Maker unknown
1800
1850
Possibly made in
United Kingdom
76.5
31
IQM, Byron and Sara Rhodes Dillow Collection
2008.040.0445