vintage linen grain sacks

More lovely antique grain sacks. Hungarian grain sacks were woven from home grown, hand spun hemp. usually plain or with red or blue stripes, the stripes indicated to the mill from where the grain came. Some also have hand embrodiered initials.

Vintage Romanian grain sacks tend to be a different weave, some are very heavy indeed. We have a few of these with a caramel stripe, the caramel colour was obtained by using elder berries.. picture coming soon

beautiful fabrics

It has been a long cold winter here in Hungary. Heavy snow in the mountains in Transylvania has meant that our supply of bespoke embrodiery has been a bit slow. Apologies to any of you waiting for a cushion, they should be with you soon .

We have recently taken delivery of some really beautiful and unsual fabrics and in roll of uo to 30 meters in length. Check the website for details

trade show

Parna will be exhibiting at Top Drawer Spring. Top Drawer is a design led home and gift trade fair held in the Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London. We are excited to be introducing some more embroidery designs and other items in our "from vintage" range. A sneak preview will be available on this blog soon.

There is an amazing 20% off everything in teh parna shop until the 5 th January.

Top Drawer

parna will be exhibiting at Top Drawer Spring 18-20 Jan at Earls Court Olympia.

Transylvania

I have just arrived back from Transylvania. Here are some pictures of the house I stay in in the village. This is the "best "room and shows the traditional decorative bed, this is a particularly splendid one with lots of cross stitch embroidrey. The traditional pillows are piled high with the decorative part facing outwards. There are two mattress covers stuffed with straw, you can just about see the ends poking out , they are covered with two decorative covers.

Eco home and garden

With lots of lovely pictures eco home and garden is an engaging online eco magazine. The October issue is just out and features parna bags and cushions

Home spun vintage hemp hanks

I have just come across hanks of this......vintage home spun hemp.. hard to believe that from this (and of course hours of weaving work) came the beautiful cloth that was made into sacks!