French Linen Throw Pillow No.2 sesami-service creating a floating pattern layer

creating a floating pattern layer that produces the characteristic geometric relief

The floral motifs — worked in silk thread on a cotton or silk ground — could take years to complete

Made from wool suiting remnants in the early 1900s

the pattern includes both long sleeve and short sleeve variations

French Linen Throw Pillow No.2 sesami-service creating a floating pattern layerCut from a 19th Century handwoven linen duvet cover France. Woven by hand from flax linen in the 1800s, this duvet cover was likely made in a small European village, before industrial looms, before fast anything. You can still feel the rhythm of the loom in its weave: irregular, sturdy, soft. The flax was grown nearby, spun into thread, and woven into fabric to last. There are sun faded seams, hand stitched repairs, and the kind of weight that only