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Woofing about our Toile de bark...


Trees inspire my Toile de bark textile patterns shown above.  As you may well know Toile de jouy is a the traditional French cotton with patterns depicting all manners of  country  and courtly life made popular  in the 17th century.  www.designsponge.com/.../past-present-toile-de-jouy-modern-toile.html‎.  In particular the beauty of Birch bark is hopefully suggested  and then of course a playful pun on Max, the black lab on our logo…. toile de woof did not sound quite right…   Toile de bark is a block printing process using beeswax crayons and is part of our BBB Spring collection.

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