Mungo Provincial Stripe Napkin ~ Zest
Mungo Provincial Stripe Napkin ~ Zest is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
Description
Description
These beautiful white napkins feature a sunshine yellow stripe detail running down the centre inspired by antique French sacking material. In 19th-century France grain sacks were often hand woven and featured woven-in coloured stripes representing the contents of the sack or to which farmer the sack belonged.
Mungo Provincial stripe napkins are woven from a cotton-linen blend using a cotton warp and a linen weft. This gives them the best of both worlds - the durability and feel of linen and the softness and crease resistance of cotton.
Napkins measure 50cm x 50cm.
Priced per napkin.
Designed, woven and made in South Africa.
Producer
Producer
In 1998, Master Weaver Stuart Holding acquired two restored antique looms. He used these looms to weave limited runs of beautiful homeware textiles from what he called his ‘working weaving museum’, an old barn in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa, where passersby could watch him work and sold the textiles in his wife’s shop.
Soon demand outstripped supply and Mungo expanded production to a mill housed in an old dairy building a few kilometres away. Their one-man team has increased to a family of over 100, and although Mungo is growing, their foundational values remain the same – to produce beautifully designed homeware textiles, woven with care for the community and the environment.
In 2017 the Mungo team fulfilled a long-held dream; to build a new mill on the grounds of Old Nick Village, near Stuart’s original barn. The Mungo Mill is a testament to their philosophy of transparency in the production process, with the entire mill open to the public. And those two old looms? they are still going strong!
In 2020 Mungo became Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) certified. They are now South Africa’s first GOTS-certified textile weaving mill. Mungo defies the status quo and endeavours to help shape and uphold the standards of sustainable production in a non-industrial environment. They challenge the idea that value is a product of price and don’t compromise on production methods or the cost of raw materials when it comes to producing quality textiles that are constructed to stand the test of time.
Mungo Provincial Stripe Napkin ~ Zest
