Baby’s First Experience in Elegance
The Elegance of Toile Fabric
If Baby’s first contact with a new environment must be his own bedding, it seems appropriate to allow Baby to lavish amid the most elegant linens and coverlets possible. Toile is a beautiful, artful design that has been used on fabric for upholstery, wall coverings and more recently, porcelain china teapots in the most elite French chateaus and for table linen fabric since the late 1700’s when it was first known in France as toile de juoy.
How to Recognize Toile
Toile may consist of a scenic design on a white or off-white background. The pattern repeats throughout the length of the fabric. The scenery usually boasts fronds of delicate flowers or classic woman posing in a gazebo or near a pasture with graceful trees and perhaps, a sylvan glade or pond. Generally, this scene may be painted in thin pin strokes of black or red on the white background. Although less familiar, blues and browns have also been used.
Contemporary Popularity - Toile Nursery Bedding
The popularity of toile has created much interest in contemporary nursery bedding. Entire nurseries walls are often papered toile. Toile nursery bedding can be found in soft, delicate pinks, greys, blues and tawny shades of brown. This is a definite change from the usually “baby” colors found in a nursery. For Baby, it’s practically regal. Pillows, sheets, quilts, wall borders, furniture upholstery and lampshades have a distinctive fashion allure that easily coordinates with any room in the house. Toile nursery bedding offers a calming respite and is the perfect encouragement for restful sleep in a room with these gentle hues. Toile nursery bedding surrounds Baby with tranquility. This can mean the difference between a fitful infant and one who is lulled to sleep by the softness of its design and colors.
