Flax Duvet Cover, Oat
- 165 gsm
- Washed 3×
Flax grown in Normandy and Flanders, spun and woven in Vilnius, sewn in Kaunas. Every piece on this site is 100% linen, and every page tells you how heavy it is and how many times it has already been washed.
A shop that sells everything cannot tell you much about any of it. We weave one fibre in four weights, so we can tell you what 130 gsm does at a window that 240 gsm does not, and why a shirt is washed twice before you get it while a curtain is washed once.
The same cloth, cut for five rooms. Weights chosen per use, not per fashion.
Duvet covers, sheet sets and pillowcases in 165 gsm flax, washed three times before they leave.
6 pieces
Cloths, runners and napkins in a heavier 190 gsm weave that sits flat and takes a spill.
5 pieces
Shirts, trousers and dresses in 130 and 165 gsm linen, cut loose and sewn in Kaunas.
6 pieces
Curtain panels in sheer 130 gsm and dense 240 gsm, sold by drop length.
3 pieces
Aprons, tea towels and bread bags in the workhorse weights, made to be stained.
5 piecesFlax is the only fibre in the range, so the supply chain is short enough to write down in full.
Sown March, pulled July
Pillowcases first, then a shirt, then the whole bed. That is the usual order.
130 · 165 · 190 · 240
Thread count means nothing for linen. Weight tells you almost everything.
130 gsm is sheer and cool: shirts for hot weather, curtains that filter light. 165 gsm is the bedding weight, heavy enough to drape and light enough for summer. 190 gsm sits flat on a table and takes a hot pan handle in the kitchen. 240 gsm dims a room and stops a draught.
Every product page states the weight, and the weights guide explains what each one is for and what it is not. If you want a blackout curtain, we will tell you that 240 gsm on its own is not one.
It creases the moment you sit down. It shrinks 3 to 5% in its first wash, which is why we wash it for you. Dark shades show lint. The 130 gsm cloth is semi-sheer in white. None of this is a fault; all of it is on the product page.
A handful of pieces a year. The range grows when a weight suits a new use, not when a season changes.
100% European flax, on every label, with no blend and no exception.
A seam or hem that fails inside the first 60 washes is repaired or replaced, postage paid both ways.
Once, twice or three times depending on the piece. The count is on the page, and so is the shrinkage that remains.
Spun and woven in Vilnius, sewn in Kaunas, grown in Normandy and Flanders. Nothing further away than that.
Reduced against the price they were listed at for the previous year. The cloth is the same; only the future of the colour has changed.
“I bought the pillowcases to see whether the wash count was a gimmick. It was not — they were soft the first night, and the cover I ordered later in the same shade matched. The apron was my husband's idea.”
Ingrid B. · verified order, 2024