From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

My guest designer, Emily Bodie, has done something I think is really great.

It's so tactile.

Right now I'm wearing her black wool pants and this beautiful white linen shirt that has kind of a lace scallop on the hem.

And what I love about your work so much, Emily, is it seems to be based on weights.

I mean, I pick these pieces up and you can feel the weight of them. That has so much to Emily, is it seems to be based on weights. I mean, you pick these pieces up,

you can feel the weight of them. That has so much to do with the fact that the shirt you're

wearing is, it's probably from an antique textile. So there's this intrinsic kind of value to it. And

that comes from not necessarily just the rarity of it, but also because it was probably hand loomed, hand woven.

So there is that really beautiful weight.

Somebody spun that yarn and then wove it into either a table linen or a bed sheet or something around the turn of the century.

Yeah, it reminds me when I go to Barcelona. there's a great market in the center of the city.

You can buy all these beautiful old pillowcases and tablecloths.

And there's that same kind of weight to this shirt.

Most of the textiles we buy are from America, domestic textiles.

But we source quite a bit in Europe as well.

It's more specifically in France, the south of France, the tablecloths there and the bed sheets.

They're so incredibly preserved as well. I've had the pleasure of being able to go into some

people's homes and open their old trousseau's and trunks of their family heirlooms and dig through things and, you know, hear the family histories of why they saved it and how they saved them, where they used to be and what part of France.

It's truly magical.

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