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 ...

Designer, author, and TV personality Sheila Bridges is never one to wait around for a goal to be accomplished or a dream fulfilled, and that's just what happened with her now-iconic Harlem Toile de ...

Each week, Mansion Global tackles a topic with an elite group of designers from around the world who work on luxury properties. This week, we look at tips for adding classic toile de Jouy patterns ...

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 ...

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 ...

In an age of in-your-face advertising and rapid-fire TV images, there’s something comforting about toile. If you’re not familiar with the term toile (pronounced “twal”), you probably know the look: an ...

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 ...

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 ...