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Big Easy scenes on toile are big sellers

Those partial to toile - the French-born fabric typically adorned with pastoral scenes and demure shepherdesses - can pay tribute to Hurricane-Katrina-plus-two-years New Orleans with a version depicting scenes straight from the streets of the Big Easy: St. Louis Cathedral at Jackson Square, the Natchez steamboat, streetcars, and French Quarter courtyards.

Toile pillow from Hazelnut New Orleans depicts street scenes. Sales have been brisk since Hurricane Katrina.
Toile pillow from Hazelnut New Orleans depicts street scenes. Sales have been brisk since Hurricane Katrina.Read more
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Those partial to toile - the French-born fabric typically adorned with pastoral scenes and demure shepherdesses - can pay tribute to Hurricane-Katrina-plus-two-years New Orleans with a version depicting scenes straight from the streets of the Big Easy: St. Louis Cathedral at Jackson Square, the Natchez steamboat, streetcars, and French Quarter courtyards.

The fabric, a cotton-linen blend, was designed by Bryan Batt and Tom Cianfichi, owners of the home and gift boutique Hazelnut New Orleans, to coincide with the shop's opening four years ago.

"It was selling very well before," Cianfichi says, "but with the sentiment after Katrina, it has really taken off."

The fabric is sold by the yard and also is available on pillows, tea towels, frames, napkins, placemats and coasters, starting at $15. For information or to order: www.hazelnutneworleans.com.

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