this is how we do it…..

Actually I don’t know if it’s interesting or not but I thought I’d explain the whole process of how you get to have sweeter dreams sleeping on your delicious very handmade pillowcases.

So…..

We get a whole heap of white ex-hotel just-been-laundered pillowcases and then we go through them one by one and 

PAIR them. We find their soulmates. Because there are some pretty random sizes, the really odd super long ones we 

CUT & SEW to make them a bit more normal. The ones that are toooo odd, We’re looking at making cushion covers and who knows what out of those.

Then we start 

DYING. 

We might do about 60 pairs at a time. That means we boil up the hot water and add all the bits and bobs and stir and stir and then rinse and rinse and when its all tickity boo and cooked and ready they get rinsed again and then

WASHED in the washing machine. When they’re done we obviously 

HANG those out to dry.  

When they’re dry they all get 

IRONED. This takes ages and watching a bit of telly like a doco or something not quite so brainy is good for this. 

Then we 

PAIR them again. Find their mates. 

Now they’re ready to print so we

STUFF each one with newspaper so when we print, the ink doesn’t go through to there other side because that would be ugly.

We sort our some banging colour combos and do the 

FIRST PRINT.

We might do about 20-30 pairs at a time, each one a different colour combo. As we go each one gets 

HUNG UP to dry. When they’re dry, usually on the next day we 

PRINT THE SECOND COLOUR.

These also get 

HUNG out to dry. 

We do that with each colour and each print.

When they’re all super dry- we usually wait a few days, we get all the print runs together and take them to the commercial laundry and have them

HEATSET in the big gas dryers. As soon as they come out we 

FOLD them so they don’t get mega wrinkly again. And then when we get home we 

PAIR them again!!! We find their besties for the last time.

Then, since we are sooo flash now, we

PHOTOGRAPH  each one and then

LOAD the pix up onto our website with a description.

Then they sit in our washhouse (I wish we could say studio) until they find their owners.

Thats it. 

Until the next sesh.