Crewelwork Jacket - S sesami-service Stretch cotton

Stretch cotton

The worn color and visible seams are not age — they are the record of the object doing exactly what it was made to do

The pattern is soft from time

Circa early 1800's European grain sacks were handwoven on narrow looms using fibers produced on family farms

Cut from a circa 1920 crewelwork textile

Crewelwork Jacket - S sesami-service Stretch cottonOne of one c. 18001900 Europe Provenance Cut from a 19th century crewelwork curtain panel, backed in satin and made to hang at a window of some consequence. Crewelwork embroidery worked in wool thread on a woven ground has its roots in the printed cottons arriving into Europe from India in the 17th century. European weavers, unable to replicate the fluid botanical patterns of Indian chintz by printing, began stitching them by hand instead. What