Linseed shore

Hello,

In the book "Parrot and Olivier in America" by Peter Carey I came across the phrase "linseed shore".

Context: Parrot, a servant, was with his master in Wethersfield. But his master decided to send him home for vacations. When Parrot comes home to see his mistress Mathilde, he discovers she has bought a new house for them. He wakes up in the morning in their new house. Mathilde is a painter and sculptor. It seems to me that she is making a sculpture or some busts here. I don't understand the expression "linseed shore". I know that linseed oil was used as a component of paints (so perhaps the "shore" could be a metaphore for the place where she works which smells of linseed but I am not sure about it). Could "shore" mean a kind of pedestal/stand for the sculpture/busts?

"What pleasures I had expected of my grande vacance must stay as private as Long Island oysters in their blue and ashy shells, but finally the morning came when I woke to find myself alone in heaven and Mathilde departed to her linseed shore – some five feet from my hand. There she once more scraped and rubbed and pounded at two yellow faces glowing from a muddy ground."



Thank you very much for your help.