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Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf's workshop in the nearby town of Jouy, had pioneered the complicated process for printing cotton textiles with fast-coloured dyes in Europe. Many steps were involved in producing the finished textile. First the copper plates were engraved with the desired design using a burin, in the manner of plates for fine art prints. The plate would then be coated with a mordant, a solution that would react with the dye during the dyeing process, binding it to the cloth. The cloth would then be printed with the plates by hand before finally being immersed in vats of dye for the design to take. \r\n\r\nIn 1797, the copper-roller printing machine was introduced to Jouy, which sped up the printing process and greatly increased the workshop's output.\r\n\r\nThis designs shows scenes from the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine, first published in Paris in 1668.","physicalDescription":"Toile de Jouy, showing scenes from La Fontaine's fables; printed cotton, 1750-99, French. The textile has been block-printed but the three red motifs imitate the monochrome impressions of copper-plate printing.\r\n\r\nThe fables depicted are 'Le Loup et la Cigogne' and 'Le Corbeau et le Renard'. This Toile de Jouy was published in Henry René d'Allemagne's <i>La toile imprimée et les indiennes de traite</i>, Paris: Gründ, 1942, Tome II, plate 161, with an 'SDM Oberkampf' manufacturer's stamp (1778-1783) and is now back in the Musée de la Toile de Jouy's collections. Another example of this toile is in the MISE (inv. 954.256.1, and is published in the catalogue, <i>Littérature et Toile Imprimée</i>, 1965, no.2.","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Manufacture Royale des Sieurs Jacques P. 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