TABLECLOTH FASHIONS.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19904, 5 June 1936, Page 5

TABLECLOTH FASHIONS.

FLOWER-ADORNED LINEN. The linen department has this year become gayer, surely than ever in its history states an overseas writer. Flowers have a delightful, shy little way of their own of insinuating themselves into one walk of life after another. and once having found their way in, they refuse to be ousted, but expand and grow larger and brighter. So it is with the hand-painted tablecloths, now to be found in so many gay and attractive designs; upon their ivory sheen, for they are manu—factured of a combination of artificinl silk and linen, have crept wreaths of roses, clumps of Chrysanthemums, sprays of lilac, and festoons of convolvuli. Chrysanthemum Cloth. ‘ The Chrysanthemum cloth in its gold and bronze autumn colours, is the best seller. Those cloths are willing to submit to any ordinary washing. their colours remaining unaltered. They are reversible, too for a ghostlike semblance of the fiowcrs reap—pears on the other side for those dosiring u more shadowy ctl'ect. Peach is a very popular colour in linen at the present time—a lovely pale colour, full of sheen. In all kinds of cloths. as well as in mats for the lunch table, peach is preferred. Next in favour comcs green. Exquisite lunr'h nmis In organili muslin, hundsown, many of thom uppiiquod with more decisive colour in modern do— were turned ovor for my admiration. Oblong-shaped mats are now offering a variation on the round Olll‘S. _._—.._.—