ABOUT LA TOILE

Since 2022, Marine Lagarde and Jeanne Zion have been designing and manufacturing custom-made curtains from vintage linen and hemp fabrics under the name La Toile.

Between design and craftsmanship, the La Toile studio is a research space promoting the reuse of vintage canvases and sheets. Reusing these fabrics is both ecological and aesthetically pleasing, making each curtain a unique piece.

Depending on each fabric, Jeanne and Marine create geometric layouts that they assemble into a patchwork. The pieces are sewn using a French seam for lasting support and a neat finish. The straight lines of the patchwork are combined with embroidery, paint, or dyes, adding contrast to the natural hues.

Patchwork and embroidery are vernacular gestures that characterize an attention to textiles. Often associated with femininity and domestic work, these techniques of care and recovery of fabrics, in particular patchwork, have long been ignored and are still little considered. La Toile enhances and perpetuates these gestures.

Depending on the light, the curtains reveal themselves differently. When the sun shines through the textile, the room's lighting changes. The light reveals the fabric's weave, the intertwining of the warp and weft threads through plays of transparency. When darkness falls, the patterns and color of the threads are revealed.

All the pieces created so far have been designed as a dialogue with a specific space.