Show english tea cozies in english country hous bouses ses the table SOT for 5 tea is usually a rather large oval mahogany or rosewood one of the sort that used to be popular in american parlors twenty years ago as center tables on its polished surface resting on an embroidered doily stands daily a bowl bow of fresh flowers an and I 1 when the tea service is brought in at f its pretty impedimenta finishes the setting out no english tea table is complete without its cozy the bishops cap being the popular shape A pretty cozy made for service with a dainty tea set of pale cream china necked flecked with arbutus was of white satin embroidered with the same flower and edged with band of pink velvet and iines aine ii with pink silk to make one cut two pieces of the required size and shape embroider or paint them first then seam together at the rounded edges and edge with a band of velvet of a harmonizing color or if preferred a heavy silk cord it must be thickly wadded and lined with silk quilted with a thin layer of wadding the silk cord is sewn over the seam with a loop or pompon at the top to lift the cozy |