Length of cotton first quarter 18th century Indian, Coromandel Coast, for export market In the eighteenth century European silk designs spawned imitations and interpretations in India and China. This example, an Indian chintz, and a Chinese woven silk in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (no. 2009.4628), are among a relatively small group of Eastern textiles that were based on European bizarre silks of the early eighteenth century (for another example of European-style silks woven in China, see MMA 19.93.111).. As a group, bizarre silks present a melange of motifs from around the globe. The two textiles shown here allude to designs that depict fantastic flora together with a striped or columnar background -- elements that appeared in European silks periodically from the late seventeenth century to about 1720. Early English silk design drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, provide dated examples of such motifs, not only the juxtaposition of stripes and high