The Joy of Jouy…
The year was 1759. In the petite ville of Jouy, just outside of pre-revolutionary Paris, an innovative textile worker by the name of Marie Du Lac brought some leftover linen from the textile shop with her to her new husband Jacque Du Lac’s print block business on the other side of the village boulangerie. Jacque greeted Marie with an overly amorous embrace, as he was known to do. And in the ensuing tactile tumbles they took in Jaque’s shop some of the botanical prints Jacque had been working on were accidentally inked, then pressed by romantic flesh into Marie’s collection of fine cloth. The unintended patterned result was to spark a revolution in the textile, print, and wallpaper industries. For the next 250 years, what would be known as Toile de Jouy became popular with smoking dens walls and sewing parlor patterns the world over.
Esthetical descendants of the Du Lacs’ passion for print, Dawson & Hellman have taken traditional Toile and brought it into the 21st century with their botanical pot patterned PJs & pillow cases. Now you can wear the weed you love as you sleep wrapped in cannabis cloth and marijuana dreams. The Du Lacs would [...]
