1760 Madame Louise-Marie - Swan Sea

1760 Chiné Taffeta Floral

Product Description

This reconstructed design is based on an 18th-century textile suitable for historically accurate dressmaking. The open floral repeat supports both structured garments and flowing silhouettes, allowing flexible cutting while maintaining visual continuity across pattern pieces.

The design reflects a striped chiné taffeta with a large-scale floral arrangement, created using an ikat technique. The soft, slightly blurred transitions in the motifs give the fabric a distinctive character typical of mid-18th century textile production.

Well suited for

Mantua, Robe à la Française, Jackets, and Aprons. The design also works well for petticoats and other garments where a structured yet decorative repeat supports accurate reconstruction and practical fabric layout.

Design & Historical Context

This design is based on a textile fragment from a robe à la française, dated to around 1760 during the Louis XV period in France. Chiné taffetas with ikat-dyed warps were highly valued for their soft pattern transitions and were widely used in fashionable dress textiles of the time.

Louise-Marie of France

Louise-Marie of France was the youngest daughter of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska. She later became a Discalced Carmelite nun under the name Thérèse of Saint Augustine and served as prioress at Saint-Denis.