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HELP with material for making curtains/bed linen PLEASE! or ready made

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nailpolish · 20/03/2007 10:28

there is a material/patterned material i have seen somewhere but ill be buggered if i can find it

its chalky blue teacups on a cream background. old fashioned looking, think it also comes in faint red...

also what is the name of that really old fashioned pattern, of victorian society pictures, repeated pattern?

oh please help, i would like to have it on my bed

TIA

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nailpolish · 20/03/2007 10:34

its maybe not victorian (sorry for ignorance )

maybe its a french-sounding name, this material?

please ehlp its driving me bonkers

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ChippyMinton · 20/03/2007 10:36

toile de jouy?

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nailpolish · 20/03/2007 10:37

OH THANK YOU!

now can someone find me fairly cheap bed linen (blue) in toile do joie?

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nailpolish · 20/03/2007 10:38

de not do

(overexcited)

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nailpolish · 20/03/2007 10:39

although id love the teacups one (similar stylee to toile de joie but teacups repeated)

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ChippyMinton · 20/03/2007 10:40

LOL it is lovely stuff, have you googled? First one to find the teacups wins a jafa cake

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nailpolish · 20/03/2007 10:42

i cant seem to get far with google...

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nailpolish · 20/03/2007 10:42

found this dreamy site tho

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nailpolish · 20/03/2007 10:49

SOB i cant find it

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CODalmighty · 20/03/2007 10:50

ring john lewis

ChippyMinton · 20/03/2007 10:53

scotts

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nailpolish · 20/03/2007 10:56

thanks chippy

i saw that, its quite pricey but i like it (a lot)

i have a sample of the teacup fabric upstairs i am going to attempt a photograph

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exbury · 20/03/2007 10:57

not this , I assume?

MegaLegs · 20/03/2007 11:02

here's one but I think I know the one you mean and it is paler

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nailpolish · 20/03/2007 11:08

yes thats similar megalegs but not as nice

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nailpolish · 20/03/2007 11:14

i catn upload it too big and i dotn know how to resize

argh

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MegaLegs · 20/03/2007 11:18

bit too flowery maybe?

Some lovely ( and pricey) stuff on here. If you're into florals

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nailpolish · 20/03/2007 11:55

oh no i like that megalegs TA

will have to search on for teacups....

unless someone could resize for me?

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exbury · 20/03/2007 12:20

Nailpolish - do you have Windows XP? If you open the picture in Picture Manager then you do:

Picture -> Compress Pictures

that will bring up a menu. Choose "web pages" and then save the result as a new file (assuming you want to keep the original one)

Does that make sense?

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nailpolish · 21/03/2007 08:20

no it doenst make sense

i have windows vista (?)

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exbury · 21/03/2007 09:04

Ah - sorry - would have to pinch DH's PC to see what to do - if you will go for this fancy new stuff, what can you expect?

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nailpolish · 21/03/2007 09:19

its beyond me exbury...

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nailpolish · 02/08/2007 15:42

look in my profile - ive finally added a picture of the material im looking for

STILL lokking for!

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bran · 02/08/2007 17:32

I couldn't find that fabric, but you can email your photo to this company and they will look through their stock for you.

MrsBadger · 02/08/2007 17:50

aha

looks like it was a Pierre Frey design - you have the blue-only version.
Can't find it on their current website though - worth an enquiry.