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PeridOt Tableware manufacture quality tablecloths,
napkins and placemats from imported French fabrics. Our unique styling
gives our products a distinctive look. We also custom make and offer
a mail order service.
Nadia Teeuwsen is the principal of PeridOt Tableware. Nadia’s
career began in textiles in 1979, as a textile designer and colourist
working in the manufacturing industry. The last ten years she has
worked as a freelance designer. Starting PeridOt Tableware came naturally
as Nadia has always been passionate about design, its origins and
its place in social culture.
Those of us who love to be surrounded by beauty will also be tempted
by the richness and depth of these beautiful textiles.
Origin of the textiles
Artisians were inspired by the beautifully printed cottons brought
into the port of Marseille in the mid 17th century aboard the great
ships of the Compagnie des Indes Orientales. The fabrics quickly became
popular in the court of Versailles. It was around this time that marked
the beginning of Western fascination with Eastern brightly printed
cottons, and sparked the birth of the modern cotton industry in France.
Although it was several decades before the French were conversant
with the methods of printing used by the East. Especially the use
of mordants in the printing process so that fading of the bright colours
would not occur. The French called the fabrics by their name of origin,
calicots for Calcutta, chints from the Hindu word for the cotton fabrics,
or simply ‘Indiennes’ as they came from India. It is these
‘Indiennes’ that are the source of French Country Style
/ French Provencal from Les Olivades, that feature in our PeridOt
product range.
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