A Depression-era table linen classic — Modern Table Settings, Book 88, the revised and enlarged edition of Book 40 from The Spool Cotton Company, printed Copyright, 1937.

This 32-page booklet is built around the cover Star Wheel cloth (about 68" × 85") and a full dining-room program: filet-and-linen dinner cloths, daisy luncheon sets, tray mats, and medallion tea cloths in Clark’s O.N.T. and J. & P. Coats Mercerized Crochet, Big Ball, Knit-Cro-Sheen, and Lustersheen. Patterns are crochet only (motif, filet, and crochet-on-linen). Some pieces call for Italian linen plus hemstitching.

Featured designs in this volume:

• Star Wheel Table Cloth No. 744 — 68" × 85", 320 large motifs (cover)
• Star Wheel Table Cloth No. 744-H — same cloth with small filler motifs
• Empire Medallion Tea Cloth No. 741 — about 36" square on linen
• Sundial Tray Mat No. 7021 — about 14" × 19"
• The King Cedric Dinner Cloth No. 729 — about 72" × 90" filet-on-linen with 6 napkins
• Block Mat Breakfast Set No. 712 — checkerboard mats about 8½" × 14"
• Ring of Daisies Luncheon Set No. 719
• Colony Club No. 7015 — about 64" × 80" joined 4" blocks
• English Daisy Luncheon Set No. 747
• Lace Table Runner No. 7001
• Empire Luncheon Set No. 794
• Peasant Table Mats No. 70 — multi-color Knit-Cro-Sheen
• Gazelle Luncheon Set No. 781 — filet-on-linen, about 38" × 38" plus napkins
• Festival No. 7003 — linen blocks with insertion and edging, about 60" × 70"
• Diamond Luncheon Set No. 7006
• Checkmate Tray Mat No. 7019
• Petal Luncheon Set No. 721
• Flower Filet Luncheon Set No. 222 — center about 12" × 35"
• The Mayfair Dinner Set No. 742 — size 50 on linen

A complete Book 88 for collectors of Coats/Clark table-linen booklets and anyone working the classic Star Wheel motif.