Grandmother's Linens
I was very excited to discover that my sister had taken some photos of my grandmother's linens drying on the line outside of her house in Colorado. These linens were the inspiration for the textile line I launched late last year. Looking at this photo of the drying laundry I can almost smell the fresh scent of air-dried linens. Maybe it was the pine scented mountain air, but laundry never smelled as fresh as it did those summers in Beulah. My grandmother never owned a dryer. Why should she have, when Colorado summers are so arid that laundry takes less than an afternoon to dry?
Top image: Grandmother's linens on the line, Beulah, CO ca. 2005 © A. Brugos
Lower image: tikoli, Oakland CA 2007 © tikoli
aw - that one on the far right is pretty awesome
and so are yours!
Posted by: Lynne | August 14, 2007 at 11:39 PM
it is pretty cool, huh? helping clean out my grandmother's house revealed a treasure trove of daily artifacts from the past 80 or so years.
Posted by: maja | August 15, 2007 at 05:15 PM
Hi Maja,
I thought you'd appreciate seeing a chair that Anna, from Absolutely Beautiful Things, upholstered with tea towels:
http://absolutelybeautifulthings.blogspot.com/2007/10/happy-weekend.html
Posted by: Sylvie | November 01, 2007 at 12:33 AM
very cool. thanks for the link, sylvie!
Posted by: maja | November 04, 2007 at 07:29 PM