The Royal Winton Chintz Company is well known as the creator of the elegant Royal Winton Chintz line of products. The Royal Winton Chintz Company was founded in 1885 by Leonard Lumsden Grimwade, who was a skilled ceramicist and potter. In only a few years, the Royal Winton Chintz Company was producing Royal Winton Chintz from four factories and had a new spectacular showroom. Grimwade proved to be an excellent innovator and invented a number of new lithographic, enameling, and related techniques that, to this day, form the foundation of the Royal Winton Chintz mystique.
The famous Royal Winton Chintz line was introduced in 1928 to universal acclaim. The intricate patterns of Royal Winton Chintz contrast with the bold and dynamic colors. The Royal Winton Chintz Company went on to introduce more than 60 intricate patterns in the successive decades.
Unfortunately, producing high quality Chintz in the Royal Winton style is very expensive, and so the Royal Winton line was discontinued in the nineteen sixties. The high production costs were related to the high quality raw materials as well as the incredibly complex lithography and coloring process that each piece of chintz must undergo in order to achieve the ornate artistry that is expected of all Royal Winton pieces. Therefore, pieces of Royal Winton Chintz became very valuable collector's items due to their quality and scarcity.
The Royal Winton Chintz Company was acquired in the nineteen nineties, and the current owners have begun to reintroduce some of the classic pieces. The old processes and procedures have been revived to ensure that the newer pieces of Royal Winton Chintz conform to the quality and craftsmanship that the public expects.
