Showing at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this exhibition sheds new light on the influence of the "Indies" on interior decoration of private spaces "bedrooms, small cabinets or dressing rooms" in seventeenth-century British architecture, and brings design and textile production of the period into sharp focus.
Two Indian callico or chintz wide curtains, once hung in the bedroom of a member of the Ashburnham family from Sussex and later acquired by the museum, have been used as a starting point to explore the imagery of Indian textiles produced for the English market at that time, and the coeval textile trade between Europe and the East.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
5 November 2008 - 21 June 2009