Home Couture Fabric: Principessa - Custom Turquoise on Ecru 100% Linen

Principessa - Custom Turquoise on Ecru The Medici palaces were full of color that museum catalogs never show you - the dyes oxidized, the light changed them, and by the time we photograph what's left we think Italian nobility lived in tasteful beige. They didn't. They lived in rooms that announced themselves. This damask carries the same elaborate floral and crown motifs that covered Florentine walls in the 1500s, but printed in a turquoise that's entirely uninterested in historical reenactment. It's what you'd specify if you wanted the lineage without the formality, the craft without the preciousness. The kind of fabric that works as well in a Northern California wine country guest room as it would have in a Venetian merchant's daughter's chamber - which is to say, it works in spaces that understand the difference between important and self-important. Five yards is enough for a generous throw, a pair of substantial pillows, or the kind of upholstered bench that turns a bedroom corner into the place you actually sit down to put your shoes on. Washed linen means it arrives already knowing what it is - no stiffness to break in, no waiting for it to relax into itself. The 25-inch repeat gives you full motifs without forcing a lot of waste, and the 55-inch width means you're not piecing unless you're doing something ambitious. This is the last lot in this colorway - turquoise on ecru, lot WHS J65864 C - which means when these five yards are gone, this particular combination of Renaissance swagger and California ease doesn't exist anymore. SKU: HC1280C-01CST Color: Custom Turquoise on Ecru (Lot: WHS J65864 C) Width: 55" Repeat: 25"  Content: 100% Linen, Washed and Framed Origin: Handprinted in the USA on ground woven in Europe   Please note that colors may not represent accurately in photo. Additional photo(s) provided to show scale, not colorway. Please contact us before purchase with any questions. ALL SALES ARE FINAL, and we do not send cuttings for approval.