Zemiros Shabbos Booklet, Marble Look #282

Marble across the cover with nothing added to it. No gold strip, no sidebar, no border, just the stone pattern on a booklet measuring 6.25 by 4.5 inches. It is the plainest of the marble faces here and the one that gets ordered when the table already has enough going on with the linen and the flowers.

Ashkenaz or Eduth Mizrach at the time of ordering. The size is the compact upright, which is the format most people default to for guest booklets: small enough to sit beside a place setting without displacing anything, large enough that the type is not a strain for somebody reading across the table by candlelight.

Marble-look covers do one genuinely useful thing that solid colours do not, which is hide handling. Fingerprints, a drop of wine, the general wear a booklet takes over a year of Fridays all vanish into the pattern rather than sitting on top of it. For a household that keeps a working stack and uses them until they give out, that is the reason to take marble over white.

• Malchut design #282
• Nisuch: Ashkenaz, Eduth Mizrach
• Measures 6

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