Vintage French Jacobean Floral & Ticking Stripe Cotton Quilt, Queen Size

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The quilt you wash once and keep for twenty years...
A French cotton quilt in a warm caramel ground with … Read more The quilt you wash once and keep for twenty years...
A French cotton quilt in a warm caramel ground with a large-scale jacobean floral — cream, taupe, and faded sage — reversing to a classic cream and caramel ticking stripe. Two very good fabrics that have been living together long enough to feel inevitable. It's a very French duality: something that could read as rustic but never quite does, because the scale and the palette keep pulling it back toward something more considered.
The cotton itself has the weight and print scale of an earlier era — the kind of fabric that got saved because someone knew better than to throw it away. The quilting is 1960s. The cloth almost certainly isn't.
This one came back with us from Paris last winter, found at a neighborhood brocante during a trip that was equal parts buying for the shop and eating our weight in pastry. Not the tourist markets — the kind of place you only find if you're actually looking.
Hand and machine stitched with the easy weight that makes a good French quilt so livable. Queen sized at approximately 90" × 109" aprox. , with enough drop to actually work on a modern bed.
Condition is excellent for the period. Supple, clean, no tears, no repairs, no previous-owner decisions to undo. Just a well-made textile that's been well cared for, ready to go.
Dimensions: 64"W × 106"L
Material: 100% cotton
Origin: France
Period: 1960s, from earlier fabric
Condition: Good — original and unaltered
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