| Show NrW TABlE lINfN Passing of Silk and Satin Festival Damask Forth Coming Season Stylish table linen for the coming season shows a decided chan e from that of the past Satin silk and velvet will no longer be used even with the handsomest lace trimmings To be sty lish lace which will be much used must be combined with a suitable quality qual-ity of linen either dull or satin finished For these iace sets there are three I new laces a Russian lace that has I close meshes and clumsy looking figures fig-ures across the room it has the appearance ap-pearance of ordinary crochet work a French lace that more than anything else resembles coarse linen torchon and the third a fine duchess lace This lost Is the finest lace ever used in table decoration and is combined with linen so fine and sheer as to almost resemble muslin It Is used chiefly for tea and lunch cloths center pieces and plate and finger bowl doilies One of the most beautiful luncheon cloths shown Is of dull finished linen with a center of duchess lace about the size of a large dinner plate from this lace center to the four corners of the cloth extend a narrow scroll work of the lace while around the edge is a lace border three inches deep Of course the corners of I this cloth are not intended to fall over tee corners of the table but midwaY between With this cloth goes plate and finger bowl doilies miniature copies of the cloth Renaissance and Battenburg laces will still be used but must bo combined with linen instead of silk and satin though the linen used with these handsome laces is so smooth and glossy as to closely resemble the two displaced fabrics It is not necessary that doilies and napkins used with lace trimmed cloths should be themselves lace trimmed but they must be hemstitched hem-stitched Another new bordering for small cloths doilies and napkins Isthe tfayai drawn work This is done on the finest linen and in no way resembles the old fashioned drawn or Mexican work All the threads running one way being drawn out elaborate and graceful designs de-signs are worked In with the needle J j This border is used on the most elegant J cloths and costs more than the finest 3 quality of lace Oldfashioned drawing work will still be used on less stylish occasions It will be much cheaper than heretofore owing to the fact that the f j work is now done in Japan The linen is made often hemmed and then sent to Japan with the desired pattern to toe worked As a result of cheap Jananese labor elegantly worked cloths will be sold next season for less than half their former price Crochet work has been revived for table decoration and women who have a fondness for displaying their own handiwork on their table can crochet to their hearts content Mats doilies tray cloths luncheon cloths and even I small dinner cloths are bordered with this work But It must not be whipped on as an edge but worked in the linen itself Of course the threadl d should i be linen and it may be either bleached r or unbleached to suit the taste of the worker For doilies mats and tray 1i1 cloths often solid pieces of crochet are used When such is the case the same pattern may be used or each piece maybe may-be entirely different The popular shapes are oval round diamond and scu rps In damask sets which the dealers say will be more used than ever before at least for a dozen or more years the favorite fa-vorite designs are floral and very pronounced pro-nounced Instead of small leaves and single buds and blossoms as heretofore the damask this season shows entire plants or long branches laden with both leaves and flowers One of these sets which is particularly beautiful has a large chrysanthemum plant In each corner with their flower laden branches extending towards the center Thus covering the top of the table excepting a small piece in the middle of the cloth which is plain with a profusion of buds leaves and blossoms On a similar simi-lar cloth long slender fern plants are I combined with a braod leaf plant resembling re-sembling very much the wild burdock and the effect is both striking and beautiful Other designs show lilies poppies hollyhocks golden rod and other graceful plants rising from their beds of moss and grasses just above the hem and extending towards the center of the cloth which in the most stylish designs are always plain For round cloths the blossoms are smaller and pansies or cosmos seem to be the favorite flowers The centers of these cloths unlike those designed for long or square tables are strewn with flowers sometimes even small clusters 11 being usefl Round cloths in fact all table linen not lace trimmed are marked I mark-ed with embroidered initials For dollies dol-lies and napkins these letters should be one and a quarter inches long for I cloths two and a half inches long They I may be Intertwined or separate but never monograms Another point of difference is that lace trimmed table I 5 linen alone should be hemstitched Crochet work and hemstitching is not combined neither is it used on the latest 1 lat-est satin damask sets Colored cloths are not to be used neither are centerpieces center-pieces embroidered in colors When embroidered em-broidered centerpieces are pure white linen with linen thread satin and silk are tabooed as is also a too elaborate use of ribbon EMILY MLAWB |
