What is Tole?
The word comes from French,
meaning lacquered or enamelled
metal-ware,often gilded.
It also means table or board.
From archival records and articles
in UK, it is known that ths Schools
of Art of the time(1700's) took
apprentices and trained them,
in either the "one-stroke"style
required for decorating furniture
or pottery.
Although the brush carried one,
two,three or more colours,
it would have taken only "one-stroke"
of the brush to produce the more
complicated shading, giving depth and
beauty to design.

What is Tole?
The word comes from French,
meaning lacquered or enamelled
metal-ware,often gilded.
It also means table or board.
From archival records and articles
in UK, it is known that ths Schools
of Art of the time(1700's) took
apprentices and trained them,
in either the "one-stroke"style
required for decorating furniture
or pottery.
Although the brush carried one,
two,three or more colours,
it would have taken only "one-stroke"
of the brush to produce the more
complicated shading, giving depth and
beauty to design.