Home Decoration

FRENCH LINEN Vintage French linen Elizabeth Baer shares her expertise on hunting for beautiful French linens and offers guidance on how best to use them for home furnishing Why do you recommend French linen for interiors? First of all it is available in many shades and weights so you can find exactly the sort of linen that you need for any decorating job, whether it’s for lampshades, loose covers or bed ends. Its beauty is also its quality. It is the national textile product of France: they have always made linen and used it, just as in England cotton is something we have done traditionally very well. It has an expensive, attractive look because it is a quality fabric, which is mostly hand spun and woven; the French do this to a very high and advanced level. They are skilful at producing linen from the finest see-through variety called batiste , to the coarsest weight which you can use as rugs on the bedroom floor. What do you search for when lookin...