{"product_id":"quadrille-medium-tote-independence-toile-orange-green","title":"Quadrille Medium Tote: Independence Toile - Orange \/ Green","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIndependence Toile Medium Tote — Custom Green \/ Orange on Tinted Belgian Linen \/ Cotton\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBefore there was a flag, before there was a Constitution, before there was a national anthem, there was toile. English manufacturers figured out almost immediately after the Revolution that Americans would buy fabric celebrating their own independence — and that the best way to sell it was to wrap the Founders in the iconography of classical antiquity. The \"Apotheosis of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington,\" copperplate-printed around 1785, is the most ambitious of these textiles: Washington in a chariot drawn by leopards, Franklin beneath a banner declaring \"Where Liberty Dwells There Is My Country,\" the goddess of Liberty, the figure of Fame with her trumpet, and a Stamp Act notice nailed upside down to a Liberty Tree. The whole thing reads like an eighteenth-century comic book drawn by someone who had studied both Plutarch and the Declaration of Independence.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuadrille's Independence Toile takes that source material and runs it through a completely different process — hand screen-printing on Belgian linen-cotton, which allows for the kind of color work that copperplate never could. This green and orange colorway is the most unexpected version: warm, autumnal, closer to a harvest palette than a patriotic one, which is exactly what makes it work year-round rather than just the week of July Fourth. Nine yards. The kind of pattern that starts a conversation and doesn't let it end at upholstery.  In time for the 250th birthday of the USA, we have a limited supply of totes made from this custom fabric.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"QuadrilleTotes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44105638150247,"sku":null,"price":275.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2533\/9495\/files\/IMG_5410.jpg?v=1782419281","url":"https:\/\/quadrillebags.com\/products\/quadrille-medium-tote-independence-toile-orange-green","provider":"QuadrilleTotes","version":"1.0","type":"link"}