nankiny
Sign in to saveNankeen (also called Nankeen cloth) is a kind of pale yellowish cloth originally made in Nanjing, China from a yellow variety of cotton, but subsequently manufactured from ordinary cotton that is then dyed.
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It is catalogued under topics including Chinese clothing, Nanjing and Printed fabrics.
Its subject is documented across 13 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Material.name
- Nankeen
- Material.image
- Nankeen Trousers.jpg
- Material.caption
- Nankeen trousers circa 1818
- Material.type
- Pale yellowish cloth
- Material.gas_perm_temp
- 20 °C
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- cotton fabric
- Named after
- Nanjing
- Material used
- cotton
- Image
- Nankeen Trousers.jpg
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- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
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Nankeen (also called Nankeen cloth) is a kind of pale yellowish cloth originally made in Nanjing, China from a yellow variety of cotton, but subsequently manufactured from ordinary cotton that is then dyed.
The term blue nankeen describes hand-printed fabric of artistic refinement and primitive simplicity, which originated on the Silk Road over three thousand years ago.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “nankiny” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.