23 July 2009

double, double TOILE & trouble


(image from Vogue)

middle English toile, from French toile (cloth), from Old French teile, from Latin tela (web), from Proto-Indo-European steg (to cover)


(from World of Interiors)



7 comments:

  1. It takes a bold man to wear toile!

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  2. Janet-I adore that picture and also a bold man. la

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  3. I'm working on an idea for a new toile de Jouy pattern ... wish me luck!

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  4. terrific juxtaposition from my favourite magazines. I've tried many a time to make a new toile.

    I can never get the trees and goats to repeat. only joking.

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  5. Dear, The toile gown is just perfect and in the papered room, who is this? BCT

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  6. B- the photograph is of Carolina Herrera's daughter- of the same name(I think) photographed in her mother's room. G

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