Toile de Jouy block printed cotton chintz c1780-1800

I would like to share some photos of a very treasured piece of cloth, a block-printed cotton chintz in the indienne style. I am sure it is a piece of original Toile de Jouy; while I don't have any references to the exact same design, I have shown here details from a print which is remarkably similar in design, colour, proportions etc, featured in the book Toile De Jouy Printed Textiles in the Classic French Style by Riffel, Rouart & Walter. My assumption is that my fabric was most likely designed and printed at the same time, perhaps in the same range as the one pictured and described in the book, which was the fabric used in the factory Drawing room at Jouy.

The fabric has been block printed with a series of small wood blocks, it is a polychrome print using six colours unlike the more well known monochrome printed genre toiles. At the time, green could only be produced on cotton by first printing with indigo for blue, then over-painting with yellow to produce a fresh green (it was possible to produce a dark, khaki-like green, but not a bright green on cotton). You can see this in photo where the yellow dye has extended slightly beyound the blue on a leaf, and on the reverse of the fabric. You can also see where the edges of the blocks were lined up, with a slight overlapping of the stippled background dots where the block was laid next to the previously printed section, see photo .

I love the last photo, showing the most ancient dainty darn, almost impossible to see with the naked eye, and very effective a repair it is, especially as the chintz retains quite a stiff starch glaze over the darn. I don't know much about contemporary glazes or laundry techniques, but it looks as though it was re-glazed or starched after the darn.