Paris doesn’t just offer the most amazing boutiques for designer clothing, discount and fabulous knock-off ready-to-wear.  Paris is also a major center for home decorating and curtain fabric, too. Many of our guests ask where we find our beautiful silks and cotton fabric for our curtains and cushions. We reveal our secrets here! Head to one of the farther away neighborhoods of Paris, the 18th arrondissement, famous as home to Montmartre. Get off at the Metro stop Anvers and head to Place St. Pierre at the base of the hill leading up to the gleaming white Sacre Coeur Church. This charming neighborhood is slightly touristy, but there are home décor treasures to discover in the surrounding streets. Reine Fabrics on Place St. Pierre: If you’re looking for Toile de Jouy, you’ve come to the right place!  This shop that is located right on Place St. Pierre can be recognized by its red and white awning. It  is one of my first stops for fabrics as they offer large selections of classic French toile de jouy for cushions and bed covers. 

And pale jacquard fabrics that make excellent upholstery fabric.  Their prices are slightly higher than other shops, but you don’t always find the same selection and quality elsewhere. You could also try Moline on rue d’Orsel. curtains gorlestonThey have a smaller selection, but it is equally beautiful.curtains earlsfield If you’re looking for that French touch for your home decor or renovation project, plan a visit to the 18th arrondissement on your next trip to Paris. ikea vivan curtains blackBut hurry … the character of this neighborhood is changing and many of the shops have closed over the years. blackout curtains mamas and papas

Don’t miss your chance to enjoy this unique shopping experience in Paris! Tags: Home Shopping in Paris, Montmartre, shopping in paris, Shopping Tips on Saturday, October 25th, 2014 at 4:10 pm in Parisian Home Decor. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.COVER ONLY (Toile de Jouy Dusty Blue) for DockATot Grand Dock - DOCK SOLD SEPARATELY Add a dose of charm and history to your baby gear with our toile patterned fabric. This pretty print will liven up every room in the house. Compatible with all Dockatot™ Deluxe docks. Age: 9-36M, Stage 2 Measurement: 24 inches wide x 39-47 inches long [39 inches with clasps closed and 47 inches with clasps open] Printing on plain fabric developed in response to the popularity of “chintz” textiles imported to Europe from India, beginning in the early seventeenth century. These fine cotton fabrics were patterned with richly colored painted and dyed designs of exotic flora and fauna.

Equally important, the colors resisted fading or running when washed in water. Imported cottons rapidly gained popularity throughout Europe and were seen to pose a threat to the powerful silk-weaving industry. For this reason, textile printing on a large scale was not successful in Europe until the eighteenth century, despite the fact that a method for colorfast printing was developed in Europe by 1670. Legislation was passed in France (1686) and England (1700) prohibiting the importation and domestic production of printed textiles. In England, however, printed textiles could be made for export only, so technology continued to develop there legally. The American colonies were a major market for these textiles. The Dutch, who had no such prohibitions, developed a textile printing industry during the late seventeenth century as well, but the French and English led the industry in the eighteenth century, despite legislation curbing production. The first successful method of transferring designs to textiles was that of woodblock printing.

This could produce detailed designs, but required the preparation of separate blocks to print each color on the designated areas. Smaller areas of color were often “pencilled” or hand-painted onto the textiles (37.170). A method of printing with engraved copperplates was developed in Ireland in 1752 and then brought to England. Prints from copperplates produced designs with even finer details, almost equal to the quality of a print on paper, but they were limited to one color. However, woodblocks and hand-painting could be used to add colors to copperplate prints (1983.365). The English held a virtual monopoly on the production of fine copperplate printed cottons until the French ban was lifted in 1759. In the following year, Swiss-born Christophe Oberkampf (1738–1815) established a factory at Jouy-en-Josas near Paris. The factory at Jouy was extremely successful, due in part to the skill of one of its chief designers, Jean-Baptiste Huet I (1745–1811), and to this day, pictorial printed cottons are commonly referred to as “toile de Jouy.”

All manner of subject matter was appropriated for designs: floral or chinoiserie styles, political subjects, genre scenes, mythological tales, fables, and popular literature (26.233.8). Roller printing, a mechanical improvement on the copperplate technique, was developed in England in the late eighteenth century and was in use in the north of England by 1790. The copper roller gave manufacturers the ability to print larger quantities of fabrics at greater speeds, for lower prices, and the production of printed cotton increased dramatically in the nineteenth century.“Textile Production in Europe: Printed, 1600–1800.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. Additional Essays by Melinda Watt“English Embroidery of the Late Tudor and Stuart Eras.” “Nineteenth-Century European Textile Production.” “Textile Production in Europe: Embroidery, 1600–1800.” “Textile Production in Europe: Lace, 1600–1800.” “Textile Production in Europe: Silk, 1600–1800.”