A Waist is Naked Without An Apron

Farmhouse Linen Apron: Soft washed Linen w/tattered edges

I'm crazy for aprons. Mad, out-of-control, amateur-chef frenzy crazy.  I've discovered so many amazing ones on shopping excursions throughout France.  I drag them back to the shop and begin to talk passionately about aprons to anyone who wanders in and even hints at touching them.  (Their fingers brushed against the soft linen; surely they MUST be interested??)  It helps that I love to cook and love beauty to surround me as I'm mixing up something special in the kitchen for loved ones. But it doesn't stop there. Oh, noooo.  We're often found wearing textile delight around the shop...in fact, I encourage it. I've always felt aprons tell an immediate story: A story that you're ready to create and ponder and weave and thrust something magical and loving upon someone.  Cooking, scrapbooking, vignetting (er, it's a word!), hodge podging.....the list really goes on.  N'est ce pas?

New styles from Côté Bastide arriving in late Jan 2013. Plenty of these beauties here shown in stock now at vintageweave.com  and they can all be found under the TEXTILES page.

Côté Bastide Linen Apron/ white w/blue stripes

Côté Bastide Linen Apron/ natural grey w/soft black stripes

Côté Bastide Linen Apron in rich dark grey

Once in Provence at a barn estate sale I came across 22 of the same monogrammed, oversized and thick  linen white tea towels....

 ...and I thought with a pleat here and a pleat there and a grosgrain ribbon, extra-long tie...well, they'd make fantastic aprons!  I really love the feel and look of these exclusive to Vintageweave...

Vintageweave Tea Towel Apron

A Cote Bastide Burlap Linen Classic

Check them out online OR stop in this holiday season to touch and take one for a test drive.  We'll try hard to take ours off...

Vintageweave Interiors

*French Farmhouse Lifestyle & Antique Boutique*

7928 West 3rd Street (5 businesses west of Fairfax)

Los Angeles, CA 90048

323.932.041
www.vintageweave.com

2012 HOLIDAY HOURS:

Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 12-4

Saturday: 11-5

Sunday: 12-4

Annual Pillow Sale

Oh tis' true....it happens just once a year, but ALL vintage burlap, new burlap, antique 1800's needlepoint, French 1920's ticking, Belgium lace and Aubusson pillows are ON SALE 20-30% off! *

*  Vintage grain bag pillows not included;

*  Not combined with any other offer, discount or existing credit;

*  Visa and Mastercard purchases online only (not AmX);

*  Any existing credit not applicable;

* If ordering online, MUST Enter in Comments' Section Coupon Code: "Pillows20" to obtain discount at time of ordering; credits can not be applied after order has been placed.

Sale starts now through Sunday, January 23.  Peruse the vast selection under Textiles' Section ONLINE or stop in the boutique and see all we have to offer!  A rare opportunity to own French antique textiles at a discount deeper than most designers!

Want to see additional pictures of something you see online? EMAIL us at vintageweave@aol.com

Vintageweave Interiors

7928 West 3rd Street

Los Angeles, CA 90048

www.vintageweave.com

323.932.0451

{Five businesses west of Fairfax; limited parking in rear}

Duckie Duckie

{French Duck Pellet Sachets}

We are textile NUTS at Vintageweave! Can't control the spending whether drooling over vintage crewel lace in Bath, ENGLAND or antique faded linen in Provence, FRANCE. Fortunately for us, there are many of you out there that share our addiction! {But what an addiction it is!}

Enter these small, yet WOW factor textile bags: Vintage French Duck Pellet Cases.

We have hundreds so some may be fashioned into pillow designs, tablecloths.....but for now, we love them chock full of heavenly Lavender. The faded black markings capture the eye and you'd never know the labor intensive washing (5 washings), sanitizing and pressing. These were discovered in horrid condition and smelled of petro, but we saw past all of that and imagined the beauty beneath. The heavenly, nubby-textile beauty!

French Duck Pellet Sachets measure 12 x 5"; $30 Cream Linen; $35 Natural Linen

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Grain Bags SALE!

Massive new shipment due in on Grain Sacks soon! Out with the old-in with the new!

In an effort to make new for the new inventory, we're offering....

One Time SALE on all GRAIN BAGS!

Save 30% off existing inventory of French Grain Bags currently shown on our website

Sale DOES NOT include pillows or custom orders made of grain bag material

The sale is easy!

*Order the styles you want that are shown as still available under TEXTILES page;

*Purchase online at the website store or in the boutique;

*30% will be applied after your order has been verified that the item is still in stock and before we actually charge your credit card. It may take up to 2 hours for items to be shown as SOLD;

* Order will ship within two days of purchase via UPS Ground with no handling fees only direct cost to ship;

* We can not HOLD any grain bag and items are considered SOLD upon providing a valid credit card;

*Ask any questions before ordering as all SALES ARE FINAL.

* FIRST COME FIRST SERVE!

*Sale is NOW through Thursday, February 25 midnight PST

Shop now! "Vintageweave.com" or 323.932.0451 GO TO SHOP NOW, THEN TEXTILES PAGES

Questions? vintageweave@aol.com

Burlap Craze Continues

Updated 2/10/10: First shipment sold out; next shipment arriving late April. Pre order NOW to get April shipment! Card charged April 7...order ships April 15.

{ Languedoc Bolster, $179 ....11x34}

{Rue Bolster; $65....17" square}

{No. 7 bolster; $65....15x22"}

{Maison Olivier; $65....17" square}

New Designs!~

As mentioned in the post immediately below on Burlap, more designs + more stock arriving first part of March....pre sale starting now! These are but a FEW....

{Bordeaux; $65....17" sq}

Oh, la, la....heart be still!

Available in Mid March. Pre sale going on NOW. To reserve yours as part of the first batch out of the workrooms go to SHOP NOW and visit the TEXTILES Page at "Vintageweave.com"/a> or 323.932.0451

2/10/10: SEE UPDATE AT TOP OF POST

French Linen, Cote Bastide Style

{Cote Bastide Lin Naturel Tablecloth; $289}

New linens from Cote Bastide are in the house!

As with most Cote Bastide items, our drool bucket runneth over.....this beauty was spotted and the Paris show and I couldn't wait to get my hands on one for my own home. I bought three at the Paris retail store and two clients snapped them up immediately (one went home with me NATURALLY).

Fits a table for 6 or 8 at 200 x 160 cm. In Cote Bastide's signature linen, this washes up beautifully in the cold cycle and line dries. Don't you just love the soft black writing?? All stamped with "100% Lin Naturel" in French, American and Italian.

I'm crazy for the colors of linen, black and red....this designer stamp in red on bottom right is so simply French....details like this make me smile wide.

Before you thought it didn't get any better, offerings coming soon in a to-die-for Apron and lushly-thick linen TEA TOWELS!

This classic Cote Bastide pure linen tea towels {red stripe or blue stripe} is a monthly sellout.

The runner offered in each of the colors is fantastic, but the newest offering is especially OH LA LA: A TIE TAB CURTAIN! Same pure linen. Same Cote Bastide quality textile. (Curtain currently available in only blue stripe).

{CB Proterie Blue Stripe Linen Curtain; $149}

My kitchen is officially in love! A bevy of more love is available at VINTAGEWEAVE.COM

"Hyperventilating" Over French Fabrics

Shared by a quilting friend, check out Pam Holland's lovely tour of Paris and the gorgeous fabrics of this culture......

Paris Tour of Fabrics

Côté Bastide is in the House!

Our few new finds from our friends at Côté Bastide our favorite French atelier. In keeping with Côté Bastide's tradition these beauties are created in the picturesque countryside of in the South of France....

{Orange Blossom Soap in generous 300 gram size. Heavenly scented with Orange Blossom tree; $21. Comes in simple black box}

{French Linen Envelope Pillow with red detail and three shell button closures on front. 22 x 16 includes custom down insert. Exclusively for Vintageweave and limited quantities. $345/ea}

All Côté Bastide items shown here are either available at our online store or by contacting us at 323.932.0451 or vintageweave@aol.com. We carry the largest selection of Côté Bastide in the Country and many items in our inventory are not shown in the online store. Merci beaucoup!!!

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French Textile Bliss

It's no secret I'm ga-ga crazy for Textiles, and when I happen upon a large roadside sale on the outskirts of Paris, well...my heart is aflutter!

I promise to try and part with as much as these as I can muster...but for now many may very well just live in my kitchen for a wee bit longer! It never gets old looking at their beautiful handiwork....small repairs, minor stains and just the right texture between your thumb and forefingers....ah, a slice of heaven, oui?



Monograms and checks abound...(these three styles shown are $30/ea)


A new favorite from Cote Bastide, bath towels in waffle texture with fringe evoking the old-world textile industry of early 1900's...($90/ea)

The delicate and deliberate monogramming is so delicious! These two shown are of the rarer set and only a few are available...($43/ea these two particular monogram styles)

The darker hemp is always a desired favorite.... ($32/ea)


Pretty in pink, with such delicate motiff...(Tablecloth approx 5x7 $62)

An unbelievably French pattern...I just fell in love with this one. It was sooo pricey but so worth it. Sorry, this 4x6 tablecloth will stay in my home!


With so many grain sacks in, we have started making these fab bed rolls...stuffed with luxurious down feathers...($72/ea)


I love taking French teatowels and using them as interesting "tablecloths" to help set a table...


All are available by emailing or calling us...many up on the website online store soon! vintageweave@aol.com.....323.932.0451....www.vintageweave.com

Vintage French Hemp

{ Palais Antique Hemp Pillow; $195}
We're swooning over our latest additions.....fabric is over 100 years old from the back warehouses of France. New transfers of treasured vintage images....drool, drool, swoon, swoon!

{Cross Antique French Hemp Pillow; $240}

French Tea Towels

I'm a sucker for vintage tea towels, especially those that hail from France or England in the white and red hues, with a touch of monogramming from the family of years long past who so lovingly used them:

Dried dishes with them....
...... Carried hot pots with them..... Wrapped bread in them...
...as part of their every day lives....

Vintage homespun with red monogramming varieties ABOVE (Style HS2 $66/ea)

Vintage with touches of red and yellow or sometimes green (Style RC3 $25/ea)

Vintage white with uneven monogramming probably sewn by a loving grandmother whose eyes were starting to go (Style WW1 $25/ea)

Burlap with the right touch of red. Newly crafted by our friends at Cote Bastide in Aix en Provence (Style CBBurlap $22/ea)

When combined, a lovely creation is born:

Vintage French tea towel patchwork pillow w/down insert ABOVE($300); 18" square made from vintage French tea towel w/down insert BELOW($80)

All available now at VINTAGEWEAVE.COM

French Grain Bags Redux

So we've seen these...

Standard pillows made from Grain Sacks are nice, but these feather&down stuffed beauties just scream COMFORT!




Curl up on the grass with a good book while one of these grain bag pillows rests under your head....

I love this SUPER-SIZED grain sack pillow...great on either side of a daybed for luxury and European chic all at once.


Original embroideray just makes it all the more special, n'est ce pas?


Grain Sack Rolls, starting at $325 (3 foot rolls)....available now at VINTAGEWEAVE.COM