Embroidery

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Casa Del Bianco, a linen store owned by former Frette employees, now runs a studio favored by designers for its custom-made sheets. To match a headboard, Bunny Williams designed a set of sheets with a garland motif ($1,400). Diane Paparo, another designer, created a pattern called Hydra, for clients with a Zen-like décor ($1,730 a set).

Casa Del Bianco produced both using hand-guided machine embroidery, which works for everything but asymmetrical patterns. Machine embroidery starts at $700 a set, but “you cannot do flowers, leaves or scrolls,” said Fabrizio Biasiolo, an owner. Hand embroidery can replicate anything, he said; it starts at $1,700 a set.

Casa Del Bianco, 866 Lexington Avenue (65th Street), (212) 249-9224.