Tea Towel, Promenade Impériale

A garden held inside a frame, the way a painting holds one. A pagoda, water lilies on the pond, and a parakeet somewhere in the foliage.

Le Jacquard Français weaves it at Gérardmer, in the Vosges, as a jacquard damask, so the scene reads on both faces of the cloth. Combed cotton, 24 by 31 inches, in Lapis, a deep blue, or Jade, a soft green.

For the friend with chinoiserie somewhere in the house. The host who notices a pattern. The small gift that does not look small.