Bois Dormant carries an enchanted forest across the cloth: oak trees, groves and roses in bloom blending into a dreamlike landscape. The pattern is printed on a particularly dense cotton and drawn from a nineteenth-century gouache on paper in the Maison Pierre Frey archives — a document that already evoked the taste for verdant tapestry. The density of the ground suits the subject: a forest needs body, and this cloth has it.
