One of our favorite bloggers, Tricia Rose, currently has her Rough Linen featured on Apartment Therapy's Design Showcase.
Click here to vote for her and don't forget to leave a comment! I was fortunate to see her gorgeous bedding in person last week at Saffron & Genevieve in Santa Cruz. It feels as lovely as it looks... definitely rates a 3 in my book!
Today is the last day to vote, please support the lovely and talented Tricia Rose.
Click here to vote for her and don't forget to leave a comment! I was fortunate to see her gorgeous bedding in person last week at Saffron & Genevieve in Santa Cruz. It feels as lovely as it looks... definitely rates a 3 in my book!
Today is the last day to vote, please support the lovely and talented Tricia Rose.
(Tricia's bedding at Saffron & Genevieve in Santa Cruz)
There are so many influences on Rough Linen.
I have always wanted to recreate the linens from my grandmother’s house in Scotland and from vintage textiles I found in France. It took years of searching to discover the traditionally woven coarse linen fabric I use in my range of bedding. I have always gravitated to natural fabrics: wool, cotton, linen. For years I lived near Ian Mankin’s iconic shop in Primrose Hill in London and loved every fabric he stocked, including a double-width linen sheeting now sadly discontinued. Ian’s natural weaves and stripes are timeless.
Working with beautiful materials has simplified my taste and complicated my life, because I am always looking for the definitive texture, or weave, or color. When I found this linen I recognized its beauty immediately, and as I work with it I appreciate its virtues more and more: easy care, relative stability, strength, straight grain, wonderful texture.
I always cut to the thread for accuracy and fold the fabric as precisely as origami before sewing so my minimal seaming is exact. I sew French seams on the horizontal for strength and neatness, and overcast raw seams. I use the selvedges whenever I can.
Gutermann thread, YKK invisible zippers, and the simplest buttons – but the search and the temptation goes on. I am still trying to find a finer textured wide linen sheeting here in the US, but no luck so far. One day.
I have always wanted to recreate the linens from my grandmother’s house in Scotland and from vintage textiles I found in France. It took years of searching to discover the traditionally woven coarse linen fabric I use in my range of bedding. I have always gravitated to natural fabrics: wool, cotton, linen. For years I lived near Ian Mankin’s iconic shop in Primrose Hill in London and loved every fabric he stocked, including a double-width linen sheeting now sadly discontinued. Ian’s natural weaves and stripes are timeless.
Working with beautiful materials has simplified my taste and complicated my life, because I am always looking for the definitive texture, or weave, or color. When I found this linen I recognized its beauty immediately, and as I work with it I appreciate its virtues more and more: easy care, relative stability, strength, straight grain, wonderful texture.
I always cut to the thread for accuracy and fold the fabric as precisely as origami before sewing so my minimal seaming is exact. I sew French seams on the horizontal for strength and neatness, and overcast raw seams. I use the selvedges whenever I can.
Gutermann thread, YKK invisible zippers, and the simplest buttons – but the search and the temptation goes on. I am still trying to find a finer textured wide linen sheeting here in the US, but no luck so far. One day.
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6 comments:
I am in love with her linen. She has my vote!
Oh, I will! I just
discovered her myself,
recently and think her
linens are wonderful.
I wanted you to know that
your little package arrived
yesterday and I've stowed
it away for the big day....
Thank you again for finding
it for me/him!
Have a lovely long weekend.
xx Suzanne
Love the little flowers on the duvet cover...joyous!
Your Coral Candle giveaway is featured on my new page of my newly designed blog roll. I hope my friends entered! Yes, I'll vote for those amazing linens. Thanks for the nod in her direction.
ATB,
Liz
What gorgeous linens. thanks.
I have a lovely friend whose name was Mona Catherine Margaret Thompson: she married a man called Way, so had to hyphenate.....
What a good friend you are Terri!
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