Fine Table and Bed Linen - from Little Falls Weekly Transcript, January 16th 1900
“The preferred table linen is of fine damask with an embroidered cipher. This device is no longer made very large and conspicuous and is not much greater for the tablecloth than for the napkins. Sheets with ruffled tops are again used, after being long abandoned. Sheets and pillowcases, with the bolster cases, if a bolster is employed, are made with sets to match. Yellow or grayish lace, now seen in underwear, is likewise adopted for bedlinen. Hemstitching is another decoration which is much elaborated with drawn work for bed linen and towels. The laces which are chosen for trimming this class of household linen are mechlin, Valenciennes and guipure. Bed covers of Richelieu embroidery over a lining of colored taffeta are seen. The most satisfactory ones, however, are those of fine white marseilles fringed or embroidered around the edge and always fresh by reason of their capability of being frequently laundered.”
Source: Little Falls Weekly Transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) January 16, 1900, SPECIAL TUESDAY EDITION, available at “Chronicling America: Historical American Newspapers” at the Library of Congress. Image and text provided by the Minnesota Historical Society.