Arte Pura, The Grey Bed

I had ordered in this gorgeous bedspread, the Narciso, 8 weeks earlier. We got all the pillows but the bedspread came in a week later.......Christmas week. We were very excited. Shown in the Gesso Old color with the brushed cotton volante. The top is a buttery soft cotton velvet embroidered with chenille "Cornely " roses... A stunner.....Reversible...Washable.....

Oh and did I mention the bed itself has finishes that coordinate with the linens????? This is the French Gray.

This was the other stunner, the what Robes named the "Bustier" pillow. This went to a client's home I missed it when it went to it's proper home. There is a plain envelope of linen then the Bustier buttons and ties around it, a second piece. Embellished with more "Cornely" roses of rolled pieces of linen sewn with....


Swarovski Crystal...... OMG.!....I am not a bling person and neither was the client that bought this, as it wasn't clear from the pictures of it that there was any........ But she LOVED it...Don't worry I ordered more for the shop. Pictured here in the Angelo Old color, looks like seaglass or bleached blue jeans.......

Lovin the mix of the velvet, linen, lace, cotton, organza...

Shown here with the neckroll in linen and lace and a Brahms Mount Starry Nights Blanket in white. The bed itself is the luxe version, also available with a footboard. We will be seeing the NEW, new introductions of Arte Pura on the 21st in Paris. I can't wait....

The touch the feel of cotton, linen and alpaca....

When we were selecting blankets to carry at Beadboard I wanted the following: They had to be beautifully made, unique, washable, and of a quality that would be passed down from one generation to the next. The other criteria was this: They had to be made in a place where it is COLD.

It is cold in Maine. And, in my opinion,Brahms Mount in Hallowell Maine makes the best blankets there or anywhere else in the US. They are unique because they have thick threads and are made on old looms from the 1930's. Much of today's technology can't handle the sheer weight of the thick cotton, linen, and alpaca they use. Besides I didn't want to say our blankets were made in someplace hot like Miami...



Each loom has to be hand set for a different pattern. Shown here is the ticking weave in black and natural.



Above is their 100% linen blanket. Look at the texture.......Don't you just want to wrap up in this??????? They also make linen towels.....




This is a cotton throw with the hand tied knots. It almost has a nautical feel to it.





100% white cotton in the Checkmate pattern. When Claudia Brahms and Noel Mount, the designers and founders of the company, select the weaves and patterns they always hit the mark. This checkmate pattern is also available in the most awesome crib blankets.



My favorite pattern is Starry Nights. We had this throw in the shop as a blanket on a bed in the front of the shop. Snowy white. A gentleman was considering purchasing it and left to ponder.
The next day a customer came in with a "to go" box from the restaurant next door. Evidently she had had capellini with tomato sauce for lunch because as she was looking at something else in the shop the sauce poured out in a stream on the snowy white blanket in a diagonal across the corner. Uh Oh. I saw it after the fact and snatched up the blanket and socked it with Orange Clean and water. I threw it to Robespierre, who prompty hustled home and washed it in cold water in La Blanc Towel wash and stuck it in the dryer. It turned out perfect. And of course the gentleman came back the following day and decided he wanted the blanket. So I confessed and told him I could order him one and spilled the beans about the episode. He was amazed. He asked me "that happened to THIS blanket?" I replied "YUP".

Then he said, " No I want THIS one."



A favorite of the shop the Ribbed in Natural.


No wonder they named this pattern "Starry Nights"......
Sweet Dreams.....
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