Antique Linens

I just discovered the most amazing thing, that you can buy beautiful antique French bed linens on eBay for  less than $100.  

Well I did find this fabulous bedding that I have folded over my duvet at the foot of my bed on eBay for about $75.  I loved the bedding so much, I decided to try to find some more, but all of the other similar bedding was about $200, which tells me I got a great deal.

This is all linen, with wonderful embroidery work.

And all of this amazing beauty was less than what I would have paid for a new plain, boring duvet cover.

My plan was to take this bed spread and sew it into a duvet cover.

But it is so pretty, and I decided that I did not want to alter it.

Instead, I simply wrapped the bedspread around the duvet.

I just love all of the details, the texture of the antique linen fabric, and all of that work on this beautiful linen piece.  

I also bought a new pillow from Antique Farmhouse that adds a little interest to the bedding without overloading it with too many pillows.  (I promised Mr. CH that I would cut back on the number of pillows on our bed.  The old bedding had 9 pillows on it, which requires that you find a place to store the extra pillows when you are sleeping.)  

Here's a view of the room from another direction.

To see the post on the new linen bedding that I made myself, click here.

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