China Seas Fabric: Parquetry - Custom Blue / Turquoise on White Belgian Linen / Cotton periwinkles The wax resists the dye

The wax resists the dye

Handprinted

which is more common in the textile industry than you might think and more common in life than anyone admits

The "beautiful shore" is somewhere specific — Geneva

China Seas Fabric: Parquetry - Custom Blue / Turquoise on White Belgian Linen / Cotton periwinkles The wax resists the dyeI am named for a woodworking technique that has been making floors worthy of palaces since the seventeenth century. Parquetry geometric inlay, interlocking angles, the art of making something flat look infinite. Someone at China Seas looked at that tradition and printed it on linen. Blue and turquoise on white Belgian ground, 52 inches wide, nine inch repeat small enough to read as texture in a large room, specific enough to stop anyone who gets