Golfe is a two-tone linen canvas: because the warp is a slightly different colour from the weft, the surface carries a micro-checkerboard that only resolves close up. The hand is soft and the weight generous, and the look is authentically vintage. What is unusual is that it is also an outdoor cloth — woven in Pierre Frey's Living Heritage mill, pigment-coloured for high lightfastness, water-repellent and mould resistant, so a natural fibre performs where synthetics normally have to.
