Carolina Monarch Linen

Name: Carolina Monarch Linen
SKU: 27-s
Availability: InStock

£2 – £186

This medium scale print celebrates the migratory Monarch butterfly whose larval food-plants, the milkweeds, have been depleted to critically low levels by herbicides. The population of monarchs that spends its summers in the Carolinas, undertakes an incredible multi-generational migration every year to forests in Mexico where they overwinter. Plants like echinacea provide them with rich sources of nectar for this journey. As well as Echinacea purpurea, the most common of the coneflowers, this design features Echinacea leavigata, an endangered coneflower native to North Carolina.

SKU: 27-s Categories: Carolina Tree of Life, Fabrics, Medium-scale repeat, Pollinators

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Additional information

Description

Colourways: Neutral, Cream, Prune

Fabric type: Pure linen, from flax grown in France, woven and printed in the UK

Composition: 100% natural linen

These designs are available in natural pure English linen of a medium weight of 250g or a heavyweight 450g bleached Scottish linen

Usage: Drapery and light upholstery

Care: Dry clean only

Pattern repeat: Half drop

Horizontal/Vertical repeat: 6″ (15.2 cm)

Printed width of fabric: 54″ (137.2 cm).

Additional information

Weight	N/A
Dimensions	137 × 0.01 cm
Basecloth	Heavy-weight bleached, Medium-weight natural
Colourway	Natural, Cream, Prunus
Swatch or meterage	Swatch, Meterage

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