Toile is a classic pattern with a storied history. Fabrics featuring pastoral scenes and exotic landscapes rose to fame with help from Marie Antoinette and quickly became a status symbol that spread ...

For centuries, Toile de Jouy has conjured a sense of luxury and refinement. Characterized by repeated motifs and illustrative pastoral scenes, the pattern often mirrored major events of the time. To ...

What I wouldn’t give to live inside the pastoral scenes of a toile de Jouy print. The sheep grazing and hounds leaping paint a countryside fantasy I’ll never understand as an L.A. native. Still, for ...

One of the season's most interesting patterns was first introduced in the 18th century, and you might associate it more with wallpaper and museum artefacts than runway fashion: toile, also known as ...

They're sharing four ways to incorporate toile into any space. Traditional and timeless, toile (which is the French word for cloth and often depicts animals, pastoral scenes, and the like) is a ...

Toile is back, and guess what? The new patterns are brilliant and beautiful! I know what you are thinking. Toile? Isn’t that the traditional, overly busy pattern that our parents and grandparents used ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." However, while you’ve likely seen the print before, you may not know much, or anything at all, about its ...

How exactly did a thick cotton fabric festooned with frolicking shepherdsses, bales of hay, and general pastoral merriment become one of today’s biggest design fixations? We’re talking about toile de ...

You probably know the Toile de Jouy pattern by sight, if not by name. The red-and-white or blue-and-white design features ink-like vignettes of trees, farmers gleaning, hot air balloons, horse-drawn ...

You’re probably familiar with toile de Jouy even if you don’t realize it. Whether you’re a maximalist or lover of traditional design, you’ve certainly encountered the iconic printed fabric, which has ...