Object Details Physical Description Balloon motif depicts a balloon carrying a bird. A boy blowing soap bubbles in the air, a woman, a child, trees and foliage. The color printed on the fabric is red.

Defining characteristics Toile de Jouy often consists of white or off-white cotton fabric printed with single-color bucolic scenes—but there’s more to it than that. In fact, the majority of ...

This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. According to an essay in the Pattern Observer, Toile de Jouy originated in Jouy-en-Josas, a town outside of Paris, in the late 1700s.

In France, toile de Jouy has become the accepted generic name for the style. In most English-speaking countries, the fabric style has been shortened to the word toile. But, for the sake of purism ...

What's old is new, or at least that's very definitely the case when it comes to the brilliantly bucolic Toile de Jouy print. Enjoying yet another resurgence in popularity - home trends are as ...

Surely a first for Toile de Jouy? “We like the idea of an upper-middle-class fabric being used to explore the darker underbelly of modern society.

Highly fashionable Marie-Antoinette – who visited the factory in 1781 – and Empress Josephine adored it and it soon became highly fashionable for aristocratic interiors. A toile-de-jouy ...

In celebration of Chinese New Year, Dior has unveiled a capsule collection of selected pieces revisiting its signature fabric, the Toile De Jouy.