Probably 1950’s or 60’s, this is a coupon of lovely fine pure sheeting linen, unbleached and in a soft oatmealy colour with slightly darker filaments sprinkled here and there. It has never been used but it has been irregularly cut - that is, someone has cut bits off it to use for something else, but there is still a lot of it. It has a couple of marks, mostly along the edges, and in my experience these will soak out. It still contains its original sizing - caution - before you soak the sizing out you might want to cut it, as vintage and antique French and Belgian linen fabric is unlike anything available to buy now, and without the sizing it can be very hard to handle. Professional embroidery artisans would buy lengths of this fabric, and hem them and work the embroidery on them and sell them to customers with the sizing still in the fabric for this reason.
This is 352cm long, and for 158cm of its length it is 218cm wide from selvedge to selvedge (its original width), and from there a large rectangular section has been cut away and so the rest of the length is 145cm wide.
To purchase please message me via the contact form - please include the title of this listing so I know which piece you are referring to.
Probably 1950’s or 60’s, this is a coupon of lovely fine pure sheeting linen, unbleached and in a soft oatmealy colour with slightly darker filaments sprinkled here and there. It has never been used but it has been irregularly cut - that is, someone has cut bits off it to use for something else, but there is still a lot of it. It has a couple of marks, mostly along the edges, and in my experience these will soak out. It still contains its original sizing - caution - before you soak the sizing out you might want to cut it, as vintage and antique French and Belgian linen fabric is unlike anything available to buy now, and without the sizing it can be very hard to handle. Professional embroidery artisans would buy lengths of this fabric, and hem them and work the embroidery on them and sell them to customers with the sizing still in the fabric for this reason.
This is 352cm long, and for 158cm of its length it is 218cm wide from selvedge to selvedge (its original width), and from there a large rectangular section has been cut away and so the rest of the length is 145cm wide.
To purchase please message me via the contact form - please include the title of this listing so I know which piece you are referring to.
