Spotted prints were known by number of different names. Slate’s Jude Stewart tells us in
Switzerland – “Dotted- referred to raised dots on transparent tulle,”
France – “quinconce described the diagonal arrangement of dots seen on the 5-side of dice.”
Germany – “[t]he large coin-sized dots on fabric, called Thalertupfen in German, got their name from Thaler, the currency of German-speaking Europe until the late 1800s.”
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Though if you look at when did this term first come into print – it is with a women’s magazine “Godey’s Laday’s Book” in America in 1857. They used the term to describe a scarf “scarf of muslin, for light summer wear, surrounded by a scalloped edge, embroidered in rows of round polka dots.”
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