Blue Garden Song — North China Bird-and-Flower Printed Homespun
A vivid bird-and-flower folk print on a bright blue ground, structured by warm orange lattice lines and printed over a thick old handwoven cotton base.
- Object ID
- TA-NC-0001
- Origin
- North China · Hebei-style folk printing region — working attribution
- Period
- c. 1960s–1970s
- Dating confidence
- estimated
- Material
- Handspun cotton
- Dimensions
- Approx. 202 × 44 cm total available length
- Technique
- Handwoven cotton ground · Multicolour folk printing
- Pattern
- Bird and flower · Lattice · Floral
- Colours
- Bright blue · Pink · Purple · Green · Warm orange
- Washed
- Yes
Object condition
Good vintage reclaimed condition overall with softened print edges, slight registration shifts, fading, colour variation, old fold lines, raw edges and woven irregularities.
Identification notes
Birds, flowers, green leaves and orange lattice are printed over the handwoven cotton ground. Slight registration shifts and softened colour edges are retained as part of the old print surface.
The working regional attribution is North China / Hebei-style folk printing; exact village and maker are not documented.
The current listing is sold by one metre, with a total continuous length of approximately 202 cm.
The bird-and-flower composition can be read within a broader domestic language of flourishing, happiness and peaceful household life, while the lattice organises the image into a repeating field.
A garden arranged as printed rhythm
The strong blue ground, warm lattice and moving bird-and-flower motifs create a very different visual system from the blue-and-white resist textiles elsewhere in the Atlas.
It provides a useful regional and technical comparison for multicolour folk printing on handwoven cotton.
