| TOILE | - de Jouy; linen textile printed with a provincial French design, often used for drapery, bedding and upholstery (5) |
| SCRIM | Fabric used for drapery and upholstery (5) |
| VIN | Some provincial French wine (3) |
| CURTAINS | The end for drapery (8) |
| MOTIF | Starts to make original tiles in French design (5) |
| YSL | French design monogram: Abbr. |
| BOOK | From the Old English for "beech", a bibliophilic item printed with a story, poem etc, such as A Child's Christmas in Wales, The Chimes, Little Women or A Visit from St. Nicholas (4) |
| BROADSIDE | The guns on one half of a warship; the salvo of said armament; a verbal attack; or, historically, a sheet of paper printed with a ballad, proclamation etc, on one surface only (9) |
| BROCADE | A rich fabric woven with a raised design, often in gold or silver (7) |
| PATTERN | Repeated design forming toile de jouy or William Morris' "Strawberry Thief", for example (7) |
| PATOIS | So I employ an Irishman with a provincial dialect (6) |
| FORM | A hare's lair; a long backless wooden bench; or, a sheet printed with spaces for answers (4) |
| CRETONNE | Heavy cotton fabric typically printed with a floral design |
| TICKING | Striped linen textile used for traditional mattresses, quilts, upholstering armchairs, blinds etc (7) |
| FLORAL | Fabric such as chintz, Liberty Tana Lawn or toile de Jouy patterned with botanical motifs (6) |
| SATRAP | Parts with a provincial governor (6) |
| TULLE | Material in a Vera Wang design, often |
| CANE | Stem of a Rubus plant such as the raspberry, blackberry or loganberry; or, a provincial term for a female weasel (4) |
| TETEBECHE | In philately, a joined pair of stamps printed with one inverted in relation to the other (4-5) |
| POWELL | Author of A Dance to the Music of Time whose wife Violet wrote A Jane Austen Compendium and The Life of a Provincial Lady (6) |
