Toile

Toile (French for "canvas") is a textile fabric comparable to fine batiste with a cloth weave.

In Australian and British terminology, a toile is a version of a garment made by a fashion designer or dressmaker to test a pattern.

In the United States toiles are sometimes referred to as muslins, because during the Middle Ages they were made from the cheap, unbleached muslin-fabric available in different weights.

[4][5] "Toile de Jouy", sometimes abbreviated to simply "toile", is a type of decorating pattern consisting of a white or off-white background on which is a repeated pattern depicting a fairly complex scene, generally of a pastoral theme such as a couple having a picnic by a lake or an arrangement of flowers.

In the French language, the phrase literally means "cloth from Jouy-en-Josas", a town in the south-west suburbs of Paris.