I am imagining where it all could have started. Here. Or here. Or all the way back there. The first place where I thought I’d found the beginning was inside the chiesa. Santa Maria Assunta. The aunts would whisper it like an incantation. Before I could remember having arrived, I would smell it. The incense curling out from its openings. Before I was baptized and bound to it, it was already in my skin. And I had to find the flame. I looked for it in the rocks by the river. How many forces have found you? I looked for it inside of picture frames. Where did you come from? I looked for it in the faded figure in the fresco. How long will you last? What moment would I want to freeze inside of a frame? Me at the window: waiting for you to arrive. Us leaving each other—and our love lingering on. I would not frame it. I could not fix it. And so I free it.

LEAD TIME + ORDER MINIMUM

Made to order

3 Weeks + Shipping

2 Yard Minimum 

SPECIFICATIONS

Repeat Width: 27"

Repeat Height: 18"

Finished Pattern Width: 54" 

• 51% linen, 49% cotton |  Abrasion: 15,000 Martindale | Dry Clean Only
• Suitable for residential & low-traffic commercial applications

SUSTAINABILITY

• Our textiles are made to order, creating less waste
• Our digital pigment printing process is the most sustainable textile printing technique, as it uses less energy, produces zero water waste and has a small overall carbon footprint.
• Our one-step printing process virtually eliminates the consumption of water and the discharge of noxious effluents (liquid waste discharged into a river or ocean), by using low volumes of liquid dispersions of pigment colors
• The streamlined technology includes a softener that is applied in-line during the printing process, providing an extremely efficient and eco-friendly solution to creating a softer hand feel.

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