Chris Lebeau was a very versatile artist and designer. Lebeau made the design for the napkin in the De Witte Zwaan collection on behalf of linen factory EJF Dissel & Zonen in Eindhoven. It is a beautiful example of Lebeau's translation of a nature subject into a stylized pattern. The entire surface is provided with a repeating design of abstractly depicted floral motifs. If you look carefully at the design, you can recognize images of daffodils in the diamond shapes. Until the beginning of the nineteenth century, damask weaving was still done by hand. But with the arrival of the jacquard machine, weaving became faster and less labor-intensive. This made damask accessible to the less well-off.