French pattern

This is the guide to French country color palette.Colors are the foundation of your home. If you don’t choose the right ones, your home will never get the French country style you’re dreaming of.

These terrific images appear in a book of textile samples (swatches) produced by the Robert Maison, based in Paris, France. A label on the inside of front cover notes: “Maison Robert, Victor Ducroquet, gendre et successeur, no. 78312.” The mounted illustrations are chiefly watercolor drawings of textile designs, numbered 4495 to 4735, but without … Continue reading "A Glorious Book of French Textile Samples (1863)"

The Moderne Collection draws its influences from French Art Deco textiles of the 1920s and 30s. The decorative arts scene was galvanised by the Paris International Exhibition of 1925, which saw designers fuse art and textiles, tradition and modernity.

As regular readers know I often highlight free books, patterns and resources that I discover online. On the archive.org site I discovered and French design book the Directoire designs for textiles which has been digitised by the Internet archive. The Directoire designs for textiles is an out of copyright pattern book …

Obliquely shown bunches of flowers over a stripe.

STERLING, Blue and White, AT6143, Collection Serenade from Anna French

May 29, 2021 - Waves - Blue wallpaper, from the Nara collection by Anna French

Mounted label on inside of front cover: Maison Robert, Victor Ducroquet, gendre et successeur, no. 78312

Mounted label on inside of front cover: Maison Robert, Victor Ducroquet, gendre et successeur, no. 78312

Palampore Leaf - Blue & White wallpaper, from the Palampore collection by Anna French