Simonnot Godard "Fil de Bouche" Handwoven Vintage Linen Pocket SquareIn 1304, Batiste Cambrai first mastered the secret art of weaving linen as fine and delicate as a spiders web. His weavers, known as mulquiniers, worked in the humid cellars of their homes in Northern France, where moisture helped soften the linen thread. When crafting handkerchiefs, they would even moisten the thread between their lips to improve pliabilitygiving rise to the term Fil de Bouche, or Thread of the Mouth. By the 18th century, this