Vintage Linens for Christmas

Lovely Vintage Christmas

 

Who doesn't need a Christmas hankie

or Grandma's Christmas tablecloth?

 

This vintage crib ladder displays

my red and green finds

from this past year.

 

Under the red stocking is a white crochet-edged

pillowcase from Great-Grandmother.

This red felt stocking also came from

Grandma.

 

These are some of my favorites.

 

Do you have some Vintage Christmas

at your house?

 

 

Amy

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

To Read More Reviews or find it on Amazon, Click here.

Amy

Setting Out the Tablecloth

We've had supper together at the table a couple more times this week than we usually do.  My children weren't too happy at first to leave their television show to come to the table,  but after one minute, they had each other laughing so hysterically I had to "remind" them we were trying to eat dinner.

The dining room table where we eat was bought in 1998 at a moving sale.  In its second life with my family, it has moved across the United States twice, survived two toddlers, served as a makeshift desktop/classroom for our homeschooling needs, and endured mass rotary cutting scratches when used as my sewing table.  Needless to say, the table has more than a few scratches, nicks, scars, and dents.  I almost always keep it covered now with a tablecloth.

I grew up with tablecloths.  Mom used them seasonally and underneath her special china that was used for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner.  Now, I'm a little too busy to keep cleaning and ironing tablecloths every day to put on the dinner table.  I decided to go to my local hardware store and had them cut a large thick piece of plexi-glass the same size as the top of my dining room table.  The plexi-glass weighs much less than real glass and is easier for me to work with when I need to change tablecloths.  The plexi-glass rests on top of my tablecloth and is really easy to clean.  It also wasn't very expensive.  (If you decide to try this, have the glass cutters curve the corner cuts.)

Have a wonderful weekend, and enjoy your dinner table . . . with a tablecloth?

(The vintage tablecloth pictured is available in my Etsy shop which you can visit by clicking here.)

Amy

"But godliness with contentment is great gain."  I Timothy 6:6