The phrase "a toile" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of fashion or interior design, referring to a type of fabric or a preliminary sketch of a design.
Example: "The designer presented a beautiful toile that showcased the intricate patterns she planned to use for the final garment."
Alternatives: "a fabric sample" or "a design sketch".
The result is a toile of hand-drawn and hand-screened animal caricatures, New York food scenes and Alison herself.
A toile — a mock-up of the dress made of inexpensive fabric — is cut and fitted to the client.
Kevin's coffin would be French provincial with a toile de Jouy interior, while Albert's would be bright red lacquer with Lucite handles.
The result is a toile print of hand-drawn and hand-screened caricatured animals, scenes of New York and Price Becker herself.
Upstairs in the studio, fittings are under way on the women's resort collection as Anderson's design team pin a model into a toile.
A proper French pique-nique needs a crusty baguette, a slab of pâté and spreaders like the one below, with handle in a toile de Joüy pattern.
A toile-patterned flat-weave wool rug comes in sizes from 2 by 3 feet ($49) to 8 by 10 feet ($499).
Named after the Finger Lakes town in New York where the company is based, Aurora is a toile-like, vintage-inspired pattern in pastel colors that depicts pastoral scenes from MacKenzie-Childs's headquarters, a 65-acre former dairy farm that overlooks Lake Cayuga.
Now living in a rental apartment in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn, Ms. Morrison has devoted her impulses to transforming the overstuffed 1993 couch into a sleek 21st-century contender, aiming to bring out the sofa bed's bones by cloaking them in a toile-like chinoiserie fabric.
And they came up with three palettes for her to choose from: the decision came down to a golden toile wallpaper with a jewel-tone color scheme versus one centered around a brown and soft turquoise trompe l'oeil wallpaper.
Once, we might have sniggered at demure female trappings like Peter Pan-collared blouses in pin-tucked organza or prints that looked like a scrambled toile, but, underpinned with an exposed slip or mixed with a sin-trap stiletto in cheesy yellow, they looked impudently right now.
