A placemat with a two-color silkscreened print on heavyweight natural linen depicting stylized herb plants along with a partial song lyric, “Be Sure to Keep Your Garden Clean, Let No One Take Your Thyme”. This lyric is from a folk song with many titles sung by Jean Ritchie, an early folk song revivalist who won a Fulbright to study the link between American, Irish and English folk songs.
This placemat is described in three colorways with two linen choices in the Spring 1958 Country Prints price list, “147 Garden — Herb motifs in Brown & Black or Blue & Green on heavy texture tan — new Blue on white.” This example is not listed in the description.
Edges are straight stitched and fringed.
A matching tablecloth was also produced.
