Zemiros Shabbos Booklet, Wood Look #265

A wood-look cover, grain printed across the face rather than the stone or marble patterns that dominate this category, on a booklet measuring 6.25 by 4.5 inches. It is the warmest ground in the group, and it reads well against a white cloth precisely because it makes no attempt to match it.

Ashkenaz or Eduth Mizrach. The size is the compact upright that most guest booklets use, small enough not to crowd a place setting and tall enough that the type stays readable at arm's length across a table.

Wood-look sits naturally with a table that has real wood on it: a wooden challah board, a wood-handled knife, a bare table dressed with runners rather than a full cloth. It also holds up at a melave malka or at a seudah in the sukkah, where white and silver can look out of place among the schach and the boards. If you have been buying marble booklets by default, this is the alternative that changes the table without changing the format.

• Malchut design #265
• Material: Wood
• Nisuch: Ashkenaz, Eduth Mizrach
• Measures 6

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