Sunday, November 13, 2011

Semco novelty designs - table cloths.

Semco produced a large range of linens in the category of 'novelty designs'. Some of them used images from countries around the world such as these cloths with a Mexican flavour. Semco's kits included machine-made crocheted edge for the cloths, but some people chose to hand crochet their cloths, with remarkable differences in the style of crochet, as you can see on these two cloths. If readers of this blog can identify any of these patterns as not being Semco designs, I would greatly appreciate your comments at the end of these posts!




Dutch theme.


Ponies and horses were a popular novelty design.


American Indians.

Sailing ships.

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  1. When clearing out our Mother's unit recently we came across a cloth we had not seen before. It is the same design as the first one posted above, worked in bright colours and hand crocheted around the edge. Do you know when this design was produced please? Regards, Carol Rowe

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