TABLE LINEN

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 112, 8 November 1930, Page 19

TABLE LINEN

Shortage Of Designs There are fashions in table ;linen as much as in madam's frocks, says a writer in ah Australian, ;pa'per. Though many people demurred at the recent fashion of using embroidered linen or lace-trimmed linen; mats on polished tables,' there was 'good :reason Eor the vogue. Mats simply became popular because manufacturers' of tablecloths had. become monotonous in their ideas. ■ Their linens were admirable' ia "qualify, but the patterns were old as the hills. With changing times wo demanded '^something ■■new, something;lover. So the table mat invasion served as an alarm clock to startle Irish and Scotch:linen damask makers from their somnolence. ''Styling", is now the veritable linch-pin of the linen inSustry—styling to meet the needs of modern interior' decoration—the new simplicity, the new.smartness, .the new. craving for novelty and change. The floral patcrn and, the eternal, shamrpek ind ivy had been largely superseded by motifs ranging from a severe cla6sie stylo to a whole, dinner -table, depicting figures or a landscape.done ia the.symr bolie, manner .of pure 'design. What sau be niore /appealing.; in1 simplicity than the cloth with-a' geometrical panel design and Adamosque/'inotif ,in' wellbalanced composition? Similarly, classic and delight'fuT is the fret and. scroll pattern of unmistakable Egyptian influence set off by its floral lotus lily corners. The merit of these simple design cloths is that—even with .plain, inexpensive glass' and ehina, and with silver plate o'f.'a ( fine simplicity—the hostess' can aehieve ,an effect, of outstanding beauty. .... . ■ :, The Shakespearean damask table eloth is in itself, a lov.ely.'art gallery. Its border hangings feature scenes from some of the great plays,-while '■ eunV ningly, inset .in .each .corner:, is a, por-:, trait naedallion of the .immortal Tsard: Lemon Butter.L_^Three ,eggs, halfr cup buttei', one lemon, grated, rind and juice, 1J cup sugar. , Stir all.tn'.a -Baucepan over'slow fire until thickllik'eihoney.' i