Little Plum Blossom — Colour-Dot Chinese Homespun
A bright narrow homespun with blue and red checked lines and tiny raised colour-dot blossoms woven into a white cotton ground.
- Object ID
- TA-CN-0016
- Origin
- China
- Period
- Mid-20th century
- Dating confidence
- estimated
- Material
- Handwoven cotton
- Dimensions
- Approx. 360 × 36 cm total available length; sold by 50 cm
- Technique
- Handwoven homespun · Picked-dot weave
- Pattern
- Little plum blossom · Geometric plaid
- Colours
- Natural white · Deep blue · Red · Pink · Green · Black
Object condition
Good vintage condition overall with small age marks, cotton specks, loose fibres, slight edge fraying, uneven yarns and minor stains possible.
Identification notes
The cloth is woven rather than printed: the grid and small black, pink and green dot motifs are integrated into the textile structure.
The current collecting name 小梅花布 — Little Plum Blossom cloth — refers to the tiny blossom-like colour dots scattered inside the checked field.
A precise regional origin is not assigned in the present record.
The motif can be read alongside the broader cultural language of plum blossom, but the catalog does not treat that symbolic association as documented maker intent.
Tiny woven flowers inside an everyday grid
The object demonstrates how very small picked colour details can animate an otherwise simple checked homespun.
Its narrow width and repeated blossom units also make it useful for comparing domestic loom scale across regional cloth.
