TABLE LINEN TAKES BRIGHTER COLOURS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 47, 18 November 1937, Page 12

TABLE LINEN TAKES BRIGHTER COLOURS

Lmen manufacturers have embarked on Drighter schemes in colour and design for linens. Conventional tablecloth patterns, 3ncluding the Greek key, and spot patterns and also many new designs are woven in bright colouring, softened with an undertone in the same colour or contrasted with ivory or cream. A new soi't deep red has appeared, contrasted with an off-white. A deep Royal blue dull-surf aced linen design is woven with a pattern of fine lines of ivory white cord running down the centre, and tightened with ivory tinls in the border. This design looks well on a refectory shaped table, and forrns an unusual and striking setting for the plain ivory white dinner ware so much in vogue. This deep shade of blue with white table ware is one of the coolest looking of hot-day settings for the meal table. Even in pastel tints the new linens may be deseribed as colourful. Soma of the most effective are seen in the corded linens of soft texture with a fine cord surface. Other patterns show the cordings in a series of squares or checked lines in self colour. Breakfast linens are gayer than ever. Broad bands of gypsy colours cleverly contrasted are woven down the centres of white and bufl linen cloths. There

are checks and tartans, and others havq a broad baud of solid colour as a border. Tono designs in art silk damaska are attractive. Then there is a variety of dift'erent designs in two-tone colour e£fects, two shades of gold, pale aua deep; rose and other delicate hues r»re treated iu the same way. These dam* askg have a gleamiug silvery iinish that gives a note of lusury, and make a pleasant alternative to the all-whitQ lineu damask which always holda it.a own, notwithstanding the trend fpr variety in colourful table arrango* ments. Smaller cloths for tea tinxe carry on the theme of beauty in colour, fabric and embroidery. Some of the new' tea table cloths are like Indian muslins in iineness of texture, and are bordered with embroideries that have the look of the Orient. Others, of plain sheer white lineu, have shadow embroidery decoration, in a musliu applique worked with pin stitchiug. This type of embroidery is much used as a decoration for the lighter dinner and lunch mat sets. Even checked peasant liners' of the iiner variety have tiny. flower designs embroidered at intervals on the white sqnares. All have the daintiest of napkins to match. Pastel-colonred lunch and dinner mat sets of aoft cord linen are fringed at the edges. A new braid edging is used for heavier linen sets in deeper colours. An oere gold and ivory braid in a Victorian looped design used with copper brown linen is one effective colour scheme in these more richly tintcd linens.

ed flat platinum links, cncrusted with diamonds, is one design. Sapphires and diainonds form a di igonal band acrosg a broad piece of platinum in another. Two narrow bands snpport an enormous flower medallion of sapphirea and diampnds. Ohains of rv,by b?ads and diamonds in multiple bracelets and twin clips for the decoUetage are other innovt tions. Earrings of the sparkling button type are worn, and some are huge solitairc diamonds, \