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A potter, a seamstress and a street of dyers: Terre & Lin was born when two workshops decided to become one.
Camille Le Goff learnt to throw pots in Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye, the potters’ village, before opening her workshop in Rouen. Lucie Marchand, a seamstress, worked linen for Parisian linen houses. They met at a makers’ market in 2018, their stalls side by side.
A year later they took over an old dye works on rue Eau-de-Robec: the pottery at the back, the sewing room upstairs, the shop on the street. Their rule has stayed the same: only sell what they use at home, and only a few things, so they can make or finish everything in Rouen.
Camille Le Goff et Lucie Marchand
Potter and seamstress, founders
France produces around three quarters of the world’s textile flax, almost all of it between Normandy and Hauts-de-France. Ours grows in the Pays de Caux, 70 km from the workshop.
March
Flax is sown densely so that the stems grow tall and straight.
June
Each blue flower lasts just one day; the field blooms for about two weeks.
July
Flax is not cut but pulled up, to keep the full length of the fibre.
August
Laid on the ground, flax is worked by dew and sun, which loosen the fibre from the stem.
Autumn
The long fibres, the tow, are separated from the woody stem.
Winter
The fibre is wet-spun, then woven into cloth in the north of France.
Spring
The cloth is stone-washed: it softens and will not shrink again.
In Rouen
Lucie cuts, sews and finishes every piece upstairs from the shop.
Camille throws every bowl, mug and vase on her wheel, then leaves them to dry for a week before a first firing at 980 °C. Then comes glazing, by hand, and the second firing at 1,280 °C, which vitrifies the clay.
That makes three weeks between the lump of clay and the piece on the shelf. It is why some glazes are sometimes sold out: we would rather wait for the next kiln load than have things made elsewhere.
A short walk from Place Saint-Marc and ten minutes on foot from the cathedral, in the old dyers’ street. Orders placed online can be collected there free of charge, ready two hours after you order.
Closed now · Opens tomorrow at 10:30
| Monday | Closed |
|---|---|
| Tuesday – Friday | 10:30 – 19:00 |
| Saturday | 10:00 – 19:00 |
| Sunday | Closed |
The pottery workshop can be seen from the shop: come and watch the bowls being thrown on Saturday mornings.
