Toiles for All Seasons: French & English Printed Textiles

by Starr Siegle and Starr Siegele

Pick up an interior decorating magazine or walk through a home goods store and you will not miss seeing toiles in almost protean profusion. Toiles for All Seasons is about this fascinating textile story. The technology to produce the washable printed fabrics we take for granted today, on anything from high fashion clothing to shower curtains, was not developed and industrialised until the middle of the eighteenth century. At that point, with an explosion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593730306
• ISBN13: 9781593730307
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Bunker Hill Publishing
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.4" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Toiles for all seasons: Elegant text, illustrations lack quality

This elegant little book presents a thorough overview of the relationship between European copperplate- and roller-printed cotton fabrics of the late 18th - early 19th c. known as "Toiles de Jouy" and original printed sources (etchings and engravings) that likely served as inspirations or models for these fabrics' designs. The author, Starr Siegele, had masterfully woven her own original research into the framework of the now firmly established subject. The quality of illustrations, especially those reproducing actual textiles, leaves much to be desired.

textile history

As a lover of toiles and their history this is a most useful book.It can be a little technical but if you are interested in the history of printed textiles this is a must