The desire for Indian chintz was shared by rising middle classes. Women in the Friesland province of the Netherlands adopted painted Indian chintz for formal dress, fashioning it into jackets and linings for straw hats. In creating this hat lining, Indian artisans may have been inspired by designs from European woven silks of the early 1700s — designs today known as "bizarre silks"— or by the published drawings of the French-born architect and engraver Daniel Marot. Today, Frieslanders may still wear chintz for special occasions.