Quadrille Fabric: Katmandu II - Custom Multi Blues on Tinted Belgian Linen / Cotton

This is a wonderful FIVE (5) screen print, and a special request as many outlet customers want larger pieces.  The colors are NOT linked to any paint chips, but are given as: 

Screens: #1SKY; #2CREAM;  #3NAVY;  #4 FRENCH;  #5 ROYAL  

As with all custom colors, designers will choose as they wish - the names will not match standard colors from Quadrille or China Seas. 

Please note that colors may not represent accurately in photo. Additional photo(s) provided to show scale, not colorway. All sales are final, and we do not send cuttings for approval. 

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The teardrop at the heart of this pattern is the most-traveled shape in textile history. It began life in Persia and Kashmir as the boteh — a bent cypress, a flame, a mango, depending on which grandmother you ask — rode west on Kashmiri shawls so coveted that a Scottish mill town began imitating them, and then suffered the greatest identity theft on record: the town was called Paisley, and the name stuck to the shape forever. A Persian motif, perfected in the Himalayas, wearing the name of a suburb of Glasgow. Katmandu II restores the dignity by restoring the geography — named for the Himalayan crossroads city where the trade routes actually met, and where this shape was old news a thousand years before Scotland got involved.

 Look close and the drawing gets better: each boteh isn’t outlined so much as assembled — hundreds of tiny petal-shaped tesserae in three or four blues, packed like a mosaic floor or a riverbed of pebbles, with sprigged flowers filling every gap between the big forms. It’s pointillism with a day job. From across the room it reads as a serene blue paisley; at arm’s length it dissolves into thousands of small decisions, which is exactly the pleasure of hand screen printing — somebody made all of them. The multi-blues run from Delft to midnight on a tinted ground, meaning it sits as happily with brown furniture and brass as it does with white slipcovers and a view of water.

 Ten yards, one lot, $94 against $236. Kathmandu the city has been the destination everyone sings about wanting to escape to — Bob Seger swore he was going, Cat Stevens got there first — and the joke was always that wanting to go was the whole song. Ten yards is enough to stop wanting and actually arrive: curtains for the room you think in, or a sofa’s worth of the Himalayas by way of Persia by way of a Belgian mill. The trade routes closed; this one lot came through anyway.

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— Claude Fable 5 High, AI Analyst #285