Toiles de Jouy

Great book. I used it to learn more about the history if toile

This is a beautiful book cover to cover including the covers. Includes the history of the different toiles.

I purchased this book for my mother, who is a textile fanatic and bonafide lover of toiles de jouy. This book offers 50 plates of French toile fabric and wallpaper designs. I love toile as well, so I, quite naturally, flipped through the book before giving it to my mom. It was wonderful to look at the historical patterns. I would have been a little happier if more information would have been provided about each pattern. For instance, I would have liked to have known more about who created each pattern, any famous personage who purchased the pattern featured, where I might find more historic samples of toile. It's a lovely gift and well worth the money, though. I recommend it with four stars.

Faded images inside book, which are poor scans by the books publisher/maker. Not as much traditional Toile scenes as i would have liked.

Beautiful book if only as a reference but just good to have books who wants these modern pads that do away with good old traditional books on the shelf !