As I became a better ballerina , I wanted to be "en pointe", and have toe shoes, but I wasn't strong enough to dance en pointe.It was crushing. My mom, bought me the toe shoes so I could clop around the house in them and mainly it was for the long beautiful satin ribbons that I could tie around my ankles.
My obsession with pink continued , and eventually grew into an obsession with all pinks, including hot fuchsia and every shade in between. My mom was a textiles designer so we had a very colorful home. She celebrated with daring color and pattern mixes in every room.
My bedroom was a sea of pinks, pink stripe wallpaper, pink floral bedspread, pink shag carpet, a pink Barbie phone.Recently, I bought a pair of hot pink corduroy cargo pants, and they are of corse - amazing.
I decided that pink eventually was for babies, and I was embarrassed that I loved this color so very much. Eventually , I stopped trying to hide how much I love pink and stopped trying to have the "correct "home colors because of what I would read in all the home design magazines .Linen Salvage became my adult obsession with pink unleashed. Pink french toiles, pink ruffles, pink linen, pink silk velvet. I want to design and make a ballerina tulle bedskirt- would any of you buy it?
My design office is filled with pink prints large and small, pink fabric, swatches and it makes me very happy.
This is one of my favorite "patchwork images", need to find this dress....
When I speak to some of you , we share the same feeling of a kind of "melting" sensation of falling in love with a pink something on our site. It brings such a huge emotional response of beautiful memories and makes them ( and me ) feel like a princess allover again.
We should probably call this line "grown up princess" because that's truly who we are. We dream up beautiful confections for all of you princesses young and old, that get " that feeling: when you see something so pretty, so romantic, so beautiful , and you have to have it. So here's to forever loving the color pink, and to embracing your inner princess! Fill your home or bedroom with beautiful linens that make you feel wonderful especially in all our pink shades.
Thanks for reading, go have a pink martini!
Andrea
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Our linen bedding collections feature 100% natural fiber textiles that are selected for their quality, softness and drape. With over 20 years of experience in sourcing raw materials, our founder selects the finest , cleanest fabrics that will dye beautifully into our custom colors here in the USA. Our silk velvet bedding utilizes soft silk (from silk worm's cocoon ) and rayon (from the bamboo plant) together that create the most gorgeous bedding that feels amazing on every bed.
Our cotton poplin is light and crisp. It has a very old school, grandma's sheets kind of feel. Modern Romantic bedding in our view features pretty details like ruffles, lace trims, but rendered in modern styles with simplicity letting just the pretty ruffle stand out.Our Clementine collection is a best seller because it is simple and pretty.
We love vintage prints like French Toile and French Damasks, but we color them in soft updated colors for your modern lifestyle. We never take it too seriously and instead apply our "California Cool" spin on it, by designing the prints to be simple, and to mix and match the toile bedding and to feel casual.Featured in this image is our Trellis bedding in Teacup blue. This toile print bed has an airy open feeling and we styled it to gall casually and naturally as it would in the home. We added a second floral print , a ditsy print (small scale) print that with a small ruffle pillowcase adds a modern mix of soft colors. We finish the bed off with our voile cotton bedskirt.The overall look is modern, simple and pretty.
Here's our Trellis Floral Bed in our pretty pink color. This soft damask print has a large white ground so it mixes back to white and other tones of similar colors
Traditional Style Romantic bedding can feel stuffy and boring as some designers attempt to re-create perfect replicas of old bedrooms. We feel that in order for traditional romantic style to evolve, it has to be flexible and mix with other period pieces, like modern furniture, a modern headboard, simple architecture.
Our bedding is designed to feel casual. We are in California, and our California lifestyle is exactly that, casual. We live in jeans, shorts, sneakers or sandals, and our homes have a lightness due to the sunlight and warm climate here.
Our collection reflects our lives and lifestyle and all our products will always have a refreshing casual feel even with the most "traditional prints".
]]>Ruffles are back , says the New York Times article, featuring Linen Salvage and other designers. For us, we have always been about beautiful romantic style bedding and pretty home textiles. It's been a long neutral road filled with every shade of grey and natural color, which is beautiful and subtle. But.. it's not us. There has been an absence of color for many years in the home decor market and the magazines that has left many of us more " extra" folks, feeling un-inspired. Looking to Victorian style, and with nods to beautiful french style, we swoon at anything that has frills, soft pastel prints and of course- ruffles.
Here's the New York Times article, and a few of the products they picked to feature. They loved our soft tatter ruffle throws. Our most romantic color is rose blush.
The author also loved our . Here's the color they selected, our beautiful soft chambray
Does your heart flutter a little when you see a petticoat? When you are antiquing or walking around a flea market, do you head over to the booth that has the pretty dresses?
We do too. So here's a little eye candy for those of you that feel like us, that more is definitely more, and we are so proud to be featured in the New York Times and to be recognized for a style that is the DNA of our entire company.
This is our most extravagantly ruffled bed, Giselle in soft cotton poplin, available in white, creme and ballet pink, which has become our new best selling color!
Shopping for more romantic style? Here's a link to all our collections! Have a wonderful week!
]]>A toile print is a French print style of a traditional floral that depicts a scene .The actual name is Toile du Jouy , which is a specific type of linen printed with romantic, pastoral patterns in a single color. The word literally means “cloth” in French.
Although the word toile means fabric, the word toile has evolved to also refer to the original design aesthetic of the fabric. Toile gained popularity as a printed French fabric in the late eighteenth century, and the classic aesthetic remains popular today.
The word “toile” comes from the French word for linen cloth. The original toile print designs were originally single-color prints on a white background featuring pastoral scenes, vignettes with people from the French country, and references to European mythology. The first toile fabrics were actually printed in Ireland, but later printed in France.
Toiles of significant intricacy became a hallmark of Asian countries such as China and Japan, producing some of the world’s most exquisite toiles and interpreting french floral fabric into Asian themes, with images of sumptuous gardens, traditional architecture and elegant figures printed on linen fabric.
Traditionally, toile was printed with just one color, on a white simple linen or cotton ground using black, blue, or red pigments, then in the 19th century ,when new dyes and pigments were invented, toile was produced in a more colors, such as shades of green. Colors such as pink or blue came much later, as the style developed and new toile patterns were created allover the world.
Many vintage floral print fabrics feature pretty pastel colors like pink and blue and these soft colors look gorgeous in many room settings. These pretty floral prints often are used for toile wallpaper and toile bedding . Modern collections feature shades of blue toile bedding that often depicts beautiful bouquets of dainty flowers or other pastoral scenes in soft blues hues designed to be relaxing and tell a story.
One of the most popular combinations is pink toile bedding that features a french toile in a soft soft floral rose color . Printed on 100% cotton poplin or linen, pink toile bedding is very pretty on a white bed, or with sheets with ruffles. Vintage french print fabric is always an inspiration and designers continually search for the perfect pattern.
A favorite colorway is blue toile bedding ,which is perfect for both kids bedrooms or for guest bedrooms because it adds soft traditional style in a modern way. Vintage floral print fabrics tell a story softly and are the best vintage inspiration for modern use because they can be interpreted in so many ways and can be used by designers both in their original colors or re-colored to work in modern traditional homes.
Toile de Jouy has never actually gone out of style, but regained popularity multiple times since the style began. Toile prints were rediscovered by designers during the Colonial Revival movement in the 1970s, when the American Bicentennial inspired people utilize the the design trends of the Colonial Era. Now it’s very popular in home and in particular in use in home textiles, to bring vintage European luxury to modern style.
With so many options for florals in the market , beautiful toile bedding creates a tranquil story that lends to the restful and peaceful vibe of the room in a classic and elegant way.
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