[Sca-cooks] embroidered table linens

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In a message dated 4/15/2002 4:05:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
ahrenshav at yahoo.com writes:


> Here is something that I have always made the
> assumption that it was period, but now am having
> trouble finding even out of period texts about.
> Embroidered table linens, or tableclothes etc.  Has
> anyone done research on this?
>
>

I don't know about embroidered ones, but there was recently a Complete
Anachronist on Perugia towels, which are table linens woven with a decorative
pattern, some of which are apparently used as tablecloths - I believe the
references were mostly for Italy and maybe Germany, and 13th century on.

Brangwayna