Napkin, Manor Lane

Lunch runs long, somebody opens another bottle, and the napkins have hornbeams and bindweed drawn across them as though wind moved through.

Le Jacquard Français wove these at Gérardmer in the Vosges. Jacquard damask, so the pattern reads on both faces, matte one way and lit the other. 100% combed cotton, 20 x 20 in, in Coloquintes, an orange, or Rosé des prés, a beige.

For the friend who lunches outside. For your aunt. For the couple next door.