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du lin léonard, hier
du lin cornouaillais, aujourd'hui
Je vois beaucoup de bleu ces jours-ci… J'aimerais bien en voir aussi beaucoup, la nuit, avec de beaux nuages noctulescents 🤞 ;)
Ce matin pendant la séance, je racontais ma balade d'hier à ma kiné.... et je lui ai appris que c'était sûrement des champs de lin qu'elle a vus en Normandie pendant son week-end, compte tenu de la couleur bleu/myosotis

🧵 1/5 What actually happens behind the scenes of a #museum when something breaks?
Specialising in #farmLife of the early 20th century (up to the 1950s), #clothing and #linen plays a major role here, but is also very fragile. We also receive donations from household liquidations, often the items have not been stored properly or are damaged.

Our specialist first inspects the items, selects or rejects. Often the heirs don't know what ‘old’ means in the sense of a museum, they judge it by the age

I have finished the little linen top! It's a gift to my mum and the second one after the working prototype. Meant to be a nice stand-alone garment for summer, but also something to fill out the neckline of something a bit chilly when it's colder. A little linen top! Machine sewn with hand finishing on every seam, based off an Edwardian guimpe in an old magazine.

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I have finished the blouse! I managed to find a couple more buttons (there were some under my keyboard, I choose to blame the cats) and now it has all the buttons, as well as a couple of hooks and bars, slightly adjustable.
A better full view photo in above thread, currently have cat on lap so no new photo like that!

I have put on the sleeves! Finished the inside seam with just the overlock stitch on my normal sewing machine, as I'm going to do the buttonholes and buttons by hand, and only have so much elbow. Looks like a blouse, now. The circa 1905 sleeves are so nice. I tried it on and it felt like wearing a cloud, also!

"Finnish-ing School" teableau for 04/30/25

The little vintage plate was made by Arabia Finland, depicting a traditional costume of Häme, Finland. There is a series of five of these dishes showing different areas of the country but I only have this one.

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It is... Such a nice linen, though. Almost useless, but so pretty! Modern linen very rarely is as fine as it historically was, and while this also isn't it's at least the correct weight and drape. It's so soft and has a slight sheen!

Some of yesterday's sewing! I have accomplished... Most of two sleeves. Turned a little hem on the cuff slits, added a tiny little reinforcement square on them because this linen is so fine. So fine. Probably won't last incredibly long in use, but then again it won't be a super practical shirt so won't be worn quite as much... The pattern is the one I drafted according to the 1905 manual, again.