Literary Linen
DARTS has evolved a new decoration A for linen in the shape of short embroidered mottoes. Sheets and handkerchiefs alike may be seen adorned with witty or sentimental messages, recalling those on the heartshaped sweets popular among children. The mottoes are often worked on an inset of different color or material, and a great variety of stitches- is used to trace the words, which are surrounded by scrolls, garlands, or sprays of leaves and flowers. Nursery towels, sheets, and tablecloths could be worked with appropriate legends of an admonitory or amusing character, while guest-room linen could be embroidered with a little message of welcome. A particularly delightful use of those mottoes would be for the adornment, of presents of household linen*—-they would give a pleasant touch of intimacy to a gift which otherwise tends to seem a little impersonal.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18632, 16 February 1935, Page 10
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141Literary Linen Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18632, 16 February 1935, Page 10
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