1300 princess Khutulun - Wild Strawberry

Inspiration to this historical fabric design I have found from a Block printed Textile Fragment, dyed  in Gujarat, Western India. Possibly 14th century.

I have given name to this fabric after a fame’s Mongolian noblewoman Khutulun. Khutulun (c. 1260 – c. 1306), also known as Aiyurug, Khotol Tsagaan, was a Mongol-Turkic noblewoman, the most famous daughter of Kaidu. Both Marco Polo and Rashid al-Din Hamadani wrote accounts of their encounters with her.
Khutulun was born about 1260. By 1280, her father Kaidu became the most powerful ruler of Central Asia, reigning in the realms from western Mongolia to Oxus, and from the Central Siberian Plateau to India.
Khutulun is thought to be the basis for the character of Turandot, who has been the subject of a number of Western works. While in Mongol culture she is remembered as a famous athlete and warrior, in Western artistic adaptations she is depicted as a proud woman who finally succumbs to love.

Turandot is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni.