Textile of woven chiné silk taffeta, Spitalfields, London, 1870-1899 Textile of woven chiné silk. Woven with a lustrous cream taffeta ground on which are self-coloured satin stripes, three narrow ones alternating with one broader stripe about twice the width of the narrow stripes. On the stripes is chiné printed decoration in red, pink, mauve and green. Narrow selvedges in less than one-eighth of an inch wide, slightly tinted with the colours used in the decoration.