Nightingale's eye pattern
# Nightingale's eye pattern

Nightingale's eye pattern, Bird's eye pattern, Bird's eye, Bulbul chashm) is a geometrical pattern (of a diamond shape similar to the nightingale's eye) used in various cloths such as silk and cotton. The other synonyms of the pattern are Bool bool, Bool bool chrshum.

## Pattern

With its diagonal diamond woven with a dotted-eye in the middle, the Bulbul Chasam, or nightingale's eye, is a poetic name of the pattern. Bulbul chasm "chashm-e-bulbul," or "eye of the bulbul," means the nightingale's eye.

## Application in textiles

The design was praised for its versatility in terms of textile materials.

### Weave

Silk fabrics with the Bool book design, made in Baghdad, were used in northern India in the 17th century. In these cloths, bool, bool Chrshum was woven with a yellow warp and a red weft, forming diamond patterns.

**Khes weaving**

Check patterns (''charkhana'', chequered) and ''Bulbul chashm'' are renowned patterns in Khes weaving.

**Sari**

A birds-eye pattern is used in Saris, as well.

**Diaper**

Different kind of diapers are referred to by special titles such as “bird’s-eye,” “pheasant’s-eye”; these terms denote the size of the diamond in the design of the cloth, the comparatively smaller pattern is named “bird’s-eye.”

### Embroidery

The pattern is also used In embroidery art such as Phulkari.

