In my constant search for antique fabrics I sometimes come across real treasures.
Precious garments that tell us about another era, other lives, industrious hands that embroidered and sewed.
These two embroidered pillowcases are beautiful.
Made from beautiful loom-woven linen and richly embroidered.
The pure linen fabric in its natural color has an evident weave and this gives a rather rustic look to these beautiful late nineteenth-century pillowcases.
They feature a large portion occupied by a beautiful openwork lace made with crochet, in a rather fine yarn and in the same color as the fabric, a truly unique detail.
It is beautiful if you add a contrasting pillowcase underneath that highlights its workmanship, for example a beautiful antique pink, a pale sage green, a dusty blue, a grey…perhaps in the same colour as the bed linen it is paired with.
While at the opposite corner there are two small folds that run obliquely and circumscribe it.
A beautiful and very well executed embroidery represents the two initials of the woman who had these pillowcases made, MR, positioned near the lace.
Another special feature is the beautiful buttoning on one of the two short sides, closed by beautiful mother-of-pearl buttons.
The maximum usable size is 69x44 cm.
The pillowcases have been carefully washed but I would like to point out that there may be small imperfections or signs of aging on these items, which I always prefer not to insist on too much, because they are very old and must be respected and loved for what they are. These are not defects but small testimonies of the age of these treasures that come from the past.
You can machine wash them on a gentle cycle or by hand, with mild soap. Air dry them and do not spin.
