Qilin Bringing a Child — Nantong Indigo Textile
c. 1950s · Homespun cotton
A child rides a qilin above a phoenix medallion, among gourds, butterflies and scrolling flowers. This worn blue-and-white household textile remains documented after sale.
Atlas · Region
Nantong
Documented textiles attributed to the Nantong area, grouped so weave, print, motif and dating can be compared across objects.
24 documented objects
Nantong Peacock & Peony Textile
1970s · Homespun cotton
A long peacock-and-peony cloth documented as part of the Nantong textile group.
Nantong Indigo Diamond-Lattice Textile
20th century — under review · Cotton
A long indigo lattice cloth.
Four Seasons Flowers — Nantong Indigo Quilt Cover
c. 1950s–1960s · Homespun cotton
A large three-panel household quilt cover whose resist-printed Four Seasons flowers and historic patch repair preserve both auspicious symbolism and the evidence of long domestic use.
Dragon & Phoenix — Nantong Indigo Resist-Printed Panel
c. 1950s–1960s · Homespun / handspun-style cotton
A long narrow blue-and-white panel carrying dragons, phoenixes, floral vines and pearl imagery — motifs historically suited to wedding and household textiles.
Chrysanthemum Border — Nantong Indigo Panel
c. 1950s · Homespun / handspun-style cotton
A narrow chrysanthemum panel framed by geometric borders, combining the quiet cultural language of the flower with the practical format of an old household textile.
Chrysanthemum Medallions — Nantong Indigo Textile
c. 1950s–1960s · Homespun cotton
A square-format household textile built from two narrow panels, with radiating chrysanthemum medallions that combine longevity, inward independence and the round symbolism of reunion.
Old Pond Lotus — Nantong Printed Homespun Cotton
c. late 1960s–1970s · Handspun cotton
A bright lotus-pond print on substantial handwoven cotton, combining the texture of older Jiangnan homespun with a multicolour domestic print associated with harmony, rootedness and continued blooming.
Child & Vase — Faded Nantong Blue Resist-Printed Textile
c. late 1940s–early 1950s · Handwoven cotton
A softly timeworn blue-and-white folk textile with a rare child-and-vase composition, surrounded by floral medallions and dotted geometric forms.
Red Starlight — Warm Red Dot-Weave Homespun
c. 1960s–1970s · Homespun cotton
A warm red homespun cloth whose tiny natural-white dots, red flecks and uneven handspun yarn create a soft star-like field across the woven surface.
Crimson Peony Garden — Nantong Hand-Printed Homespun
Mid-20th century · Handspun cotton
Two matching cuts of handwoven cotton carrying large blue and pink peonies across a wine-dark burgundy ground, with hand-print variation still visible across the surface.
Four Seasons Dot Grid — Nantong Picked-Dot Homespun
c. 1960s–1970s · Handspun cotton
A dark indigo checked homespun animated by tiny red, green and white picked details, creating a dense field of small handmade marks across a firm old woven ground.
Blue Dragon Lattice — Nantong Treadle-Woven Homespun
c. 1950s–1970s · Handspun cotton
A dense Nantong / Tonghai treadle-woven cloth in which dark lattice blocks, bright borders, curving-dragon lines and pepper-seed details create a highly layered surface.
Auspicious Bloom — Nantong Multicolour Printed Homespun
c. 1950s–1960s · Handwoven cotton
Unused narrow-width Nantong homespun with layered red, blue and purple printing over warm ivory cotton, retaining the small shifts and overlaps of older multicolour production.
Peony Lattice — Nantong Blue Peony Print
c. 1960s–1970s · Handwoven cotton
A long unused Nantong-style handwoven cotton roll with large blue peony bouquets over a dotted geometric lattice on warm ivory ground.
Emerald Willow Stripe — Nantong Handwoven Homespun
c. 1950s–1970s · 100% cotton
A one-metre Nantong homespun with an almost-black ground and slender navy, emerald, muted-red and cream dotted stripes that reveal themselves gradually at close range.
Midnight Thread Stripe — Nantong / Haimen Tubu
c. 1950s–1960s · Handspun cotton
A soft Nantong / Haimen dark-blue homespun whose fine teal, rose, ivory and red yarns appear as restrained lines of colour within the cloth.
Blue Current
c. 1970s · Cotton
Layered blue and pale yarns create a softly mottled stripe, interrupted by very fine muted-red accents.
Violet Haze Willow Stripe
c. 1950s–1970s · Cotton
Fine willow-like stripes and broken dotted details cross a dark cotton cloth with blue, muted-red and cream yarns.
Indigo Floral Resist Textile
c. 1945–1965 · Cotton
Soft-edged white chrysanthemums, clustered blossoms and leaves remain across a worn indigo cotton ground.
Chrysanthemum and Butterfly Bedsheet
c. 1950s–1960s · Cotton
Three joined cotton panels preserve a complete bedsheet printed with large chrysanthemums, butterflies and smaller floral details.
Ivory Stream Lattice
c. 1960s · Cotton
A firm ivory cotton ground carries coloured crossing lines, raised wave-like details and small dotted marks.
Blush River Lattice
c. 1960s–1970s · Cotton
Soft blue-and-ivory squares, pale-pink lines and raised zigzag details form a dense, gently plush figured cotton.
Blue Tofu Blocks
c. 1960s–1970s · Cotton
Large blue-and-ivory blocks are divided by quiet olive-green lines on a comparatively wide cotton cloth.
These groups bring together descriptions from the textile records. Regional attributions and technical identifications may be provisional; open an individual record for its evidence and attribution notes.