Elegant Linens: 26 Projects for Creating Your Own Luxurious Linens [Hardcover]

Chippy Irvine (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1998

Crisp, personalized bed linens, hand-embroidered napkins, simple lace curtains, a lined picnic hamper - this volume reveals how easy it is to create luxurious linens that are both sophisticated enough for city dwelling and relaxed enough for country living. The book shows how to transform ordinary linens or create your own beautiful household linens that make gorgeous heirloom gifts or small luxuries for everyday life. The 24 projects are organized by room - dining, living, bed and bath - and are accompanied by instructions and diagrams. Chapters also cover the care of fine linen and how to shop for antique linens. A glossary of terms and a source list are included.

Editorial Reviews

Book Description

Crisp, personalized bed linens, chic cocktail napkins, lace curtains, a lined picnic hamper--this stunning volume reveals how easy it is to create your own beautiful household linens both sophisticated enough for city dwelling and relaxed enough for country living. Twenty-six step-by-step projects show you how to make gorgeous heirloom gifts or luxurious linens for everyday life. Each project provides clear instructions with diagrams and requires only basic equipment, few sewing skills, and a bit of imagination. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 151 pages
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co (T); 1st edition (October 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0821223801
• ISBN-13: 978-0821223802
• Product Dimensions: 12.7 x 10.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,125,227 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not-so elegant linens, after all., August 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Elegant Linens: 26 Projects for Creating Your Own Luxurious Linens (Hardcover)

After reading about this book in a home magazine, I looked forward to purchasing it (ordered it from Amazon.com, of course). Unfortunately, the "elegant" linens in Mrs. Irvine's book ranged from a tea cozy to a pin cushion to outdoor seat covers. Although the photographs were lovely--I especially admired the collection of antique Christening gowns--and her prose was light and cheerful, I did not learn anything about making linens that I would consider elegant or even potential heirlooms.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lovely display of linens for the home., July 18, 2000

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This review is from: Elegant Linens: 26 Projects for Creating Your Own Luxurious Linens (Hardcover)

Chippy Irvine is an elegant lady with a fine taste in fashion for the home. An interior designer and editor for Design Times magazine, this author offers a beautiful collection of linens for every use in the home. She shows the reader how to care for, store, and mend every type of luxurious linen. This book is also a wonderful resource for 26 projects to make for the home. Ms. Irvin offers her assistance for making napkins, tablecloths, dainty pincushions, placemats, napkin rings, table runners, cocktail napkins, tassels, aprons, shoe holders, sink curtains, bathrobes, cushions, a gardening apron, and more. This is a wonderful resource for the care and construction of linens.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An intuitive and practical approach to lovely fabrics, November 27, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Elegant Linens: 26 Projects for Creating Your Own Luxurious Linens (Hardcover)

Chippy Irvine's books are a marvel of elegance and style. She has a positive genius for encouraging one's creativity and belief in one's ability to make lovely objects out of bits of fabrics and lace that one either might own, or come across at sales. Her descriptions and backgrounds of the fabrics and objects are interesting and precise and the directions for duplicating some of the items are down-to-earth and accessible to the least "handy" of stitchers. The photographs of the linens and the backgrounds are beautiful. An interesting and USEFUL book for anyone who likes to create an environment with a real sense of style!