TOILE DE JOUY
Think ofde Jouy and charming images of rural idylls will spring to mind. ‘Pastoral romantic is the genre everyone thinks of. Ladies, gentlemen, arbours and fountains,’ says French antique textiles dealer Katharine Pole, who has been buying and selling toile fabric for 25 years. ‘But there are many different genres.’ Indeed, themes and motifs for this style of printed cotton covered diverse subject matter, from florals and fables to Greek mythology and scientific advancements.
