Zemiros Shabbos Booklet, Beige with Gold Design #151

Beige with a gold design on the cover, 7.5 by 5 inches, a taller and narrower page than most of this group, which gives the type room to run down the column. Beige is a softer ground than white and reads warmer under candlelight, which is much of the reason it gets chosen for a table lit with leichter rather than overheads.

Ashkenaz or Eduth Mizrach is the selection. The proportions are the practical point here: a 7.5-inch page carries more per opening, so there is less turning in the middle of a zemer, which matters when the person holding it is also holding a fork.

Design #151 is produced as a bencher cover as well. Households that run a simcha out of their own dining room tend to buy into one design across the booklets and the benchers, and #151 is one of the numbers that makes that possible. Beige and gold is also among the safer choices for a mixed table, since it neither reads as bridal nor as austere.

• Malchut design #151
• Nisuch: Ashkenaz, Eduth Mizrach

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