Name: Abbaye de Jumieges
SKU: 7789
Price: 420.00 USD
Availability: InStock

This design was produced in at least five different versions. Some are truncated from the 1845 French original and some fully imagined but with subtle variations. The pattern was imagined again in the 1880’s and lastly in 1910 as a truncated grisaille version.

The two vignettes depict a romanticized view of the real abbey at Jumieges a spectacularly picturesque ruin. This new version takes its inspiration from a fragment in the Historic New England archive. This repeat is the full half-drop design drafted from the various elements of all the previous versions I have seen so far.

Abbaye de Jumieges is available in full glorious color with shaded blue sky and also in grisaille or shades of grey. For the obsessive compulsive of us, myself included, the paper may be ordered with east or west facing shadows, or both so that the shadows all parade around the room following the actual movement of the sun.

21 inches wide with a 41.367 inch half drop repeat

One double roll covers 60 square feet

There is an order minimum of one double roll.

There is a companion ceiling paper in shades of blue and tan and matching mouldings also available to complete your contemplative retreat from the modern world.

The companion paper is called Blue Diaper and is 21” wide with a roughly 3” vertical strait repeat. $420.00/double roll. One double roll covers 60 square feet.

The Border molding is 3.5” tall and may be ordered in the required quantity at $7/square foot.

AUTHENTICITY AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THEFT

It has been said that imitation is the greatest form of flattery. In truth it is more often than not theft of intellectual property.

All of the flat pattern design offered by Trustworth Studios comes from either my own original document archive (original period wallpaper samples) or from private collections from which I was given exclusive rights to reproduction. All of the designs are meticulously researched as to scale, color and original rendering intent.

Occasionally only fragmentary documents exist of a particular pattern. Using elements from the Voysey notebooks I was able to logically complete these designs by careful comparison of sketches and matching them to the fragmentary remains. When these designs are copied by other firms and are offered for sale they are intellectual property theft of an even more odious nature and demonstrate a low and mercenary disregard for morality.

Every pattern shown on the Trustworth Studios website predates any modern, post 21^st century company’s offering.

The most copied but never equaled design is the pattern known as “Apothecary’s Garden”. That design came from a private commercial archival collection. I was granted he exclusive reproduction rights to that design by the grandson of the man who contracted Voysey to supply their firm with pattern. That design was never given a name by CFA Voysey. Whilst visiting here at my studio Richard Pugh-Cook, that grandson and head of Tomkinson Carpets, liked the name I suggested and we mutually agreed to name the design.

Hey Diddle Diddle survives only as a fragment approximately 60% complete. I was able to consult the Voysey notebooks to complete the likely original full pattern intent. The spoon is drawn from my original Voysey silver spoons and the dish is from a Voysey repouseé serving piece design. The neck of the fiddle and the ribbon are completely Trustworth Studios.

It has always been my policy to respect and to never ever reproduce any work that is already in current production. To do so is immoral, shamelessly mercenary and venal. It is also devoid of any artistic integrity.

Abbaye de Jumieges

AUTHENTICITY AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THEFT

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