Blue Dinosaur Toile de Jouy Wallpaper

There's a particular kind of quiet that lives inside a good toile. For nearly three centuries, Toile de Jouy — born in the French village of Jouy-en-Josas in 1760 — has carried that atmosphere into homes: pastoral scenes, classical ruins, gardens glimpsed through tall windows, all rendered in a single color of ink on pale linen.

This wallpaper keeps every one of those codes. The fine engraved linework. The deep cobalt blue on warm cream. The compositional rhythm of trees, ruins, and quiet stretches of open ground.

And then, among all of it — the dinosaurs.

A Pterosaur banking into a grove of trees. A Brachiosaurus grazing beside ancient columns with the same patient grace a Jouy printer would have given to a grazing deer. A Triceratops before the ruins of a classical temple, head lowered in heraldic profile. A T-Rex emerging from the undergrowth, compact and unhurried.

The design doesn't treat dinosaurs as cartoon characters. It treats them as if they had always been part of the classical imagination — as if some 18th-century naturalist had placed them gently into the pastoral world alongside everything else. The anachronism is the joke, delivered with a completely straight face. Which is exactly why it works.

The blue sits deeper than a Wedgwood, warmer than an indigo, with enough grey to feel antique rather than graphic. The cream ground carries a faint linen texture — the memory of old printed fabric — which keeps the pattern breathing on a large wall.

Unlike most children's wallpapers, this one doesn't age out of a room. It works in a nursery, in the bedroom of a twelve-year-old reader, in a study, in a downstairs powder room. A child can grow up inside it. An adult can live with it without apology.

Drawn by our studio with reference to 18th-century toile plates and 19th-century paleontological engravings. Produced in Italy on real paper with water-based inks.

• Handmade, quality sheets of paper - Sheets measure 27 x 39 inches or 70 x 100 cm, covering a total surface area of 59 ft2 or 5.5 m2.
• 8 paper sheets weighing 115 g per package.
• Each sheet of wallpaper contains the whole pattern, so they’re easy to match up.
• All designs are unique and created by us.
• We use a special type of paper inspired by the original 18th-century English tradition.
• Each sheet is hand-printed, ensuring quality and beauty.
• We’ll send you exact instructions on how to hang them as well as a free brush and glue!

• We’ll send you precise instructions on how to simply hang the sheets.
• We’ll send an easy ‘How To’ video.

How to remove your wallpaper?

• It’s easy! Just apply hot water.
• Removal leaves walls intact – making it perfect for rentals.

• It’s easy! Just apply hot water. 
• Removal leaves walls intact – making it perfect for rentals.