Testament de Lin

This shirt is cut from a 1940s damask tablecloth, once part of a family’s treasured household linens. Woven in white-on-white patterning, damask was a marker of refinement, brought out for celebrations and carefully maintained during an era when textiles were precious. In one corner, a small green embroidered triangle remains - a discreet laundry mark. Before household washing machines were common, linens were washed in bulk at laundries or communal washhouses, and families stitched tiny symbols or initials into their cloth to ensure they made it back to the right home. By keeping that mark, this piece carries the quiet memory of domestic life in the 1940s, now reimagined as something contemporary and wearable.