Colorful Tablecloths

I haven't shared any great reads for a while.

Here's a book I purchased for my overflowing bookshelf.

  I'm cleaning out my craft bins and closets

 to make room for great new items

 such as this great resource featuring

 vintage tablecloths by Schiffer Publishing.

Yvonne Barineau and Erin Henderson, the authors,

give readers four different tablecloth sections --

floral, fruit and veggies, conversational,

and the geometric and abstract.

The photographs of the tablecloths

 by David DeHoyos are wonderful!

Although I thoroughly enjoyed the

 tablecloth descriptions and pictures,

 I especially loved the information provided

about cleaning and storing vintage tablecloths

 given in Chapter 5. 

The manufacturers' information in

Chapter 6 along with the photographs

 of the manufacturers' tags are incredible.

My only disappointment was that the price guide

 was limited to pristine and tagged tablecloths.

  Thus, all suggested price listings

 were on the higher estimated end.

  The authors did give an explanation

 for this in the introduction,

but the buyer of this book still be expecting

 to find help for pricing their vintage

 no longer tagged and probably not pristine tablecloths.

This is a GREAT book to own.

Colorful Tablecloths: 1930's-1960's Threads of the Past

Yvonne Barineau & Erin Henderson

A Schiffer Book For Collectors

With Price Guide

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Amy