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Retro Santa Vintage Christmas Tablecloth

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011 at 10:59 am

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Retro Santa Vintage Christmas Tablecloth at Amazon

One of the fastest, simplest, and least costly ways to set a vintage holiday embellishing theme is with Christmas tablecloths.

The holidays are a time of feasts, and the family table takes on a whole new importance for the duration of the festive season. Between holiday meals the table is one of the natural focal points of any home, and how you dress it may go a long way toward solidly establishing a theme of vintage Christmas decorations.

Making sure your table covering is a good match for your overall theme is super important. Use the following tips to choose the covering that best matches your theme.

Victorian: Go for the look of formal luxury. A silky, shiny floor length cloth is an magnificent starting point. If you take place to be the lucky proprietor of an antiquate silk brocade, this is the time to use it! But if you’re not, you’ll find dozens of super-inexpensive “lookalikes” in any discount store.

Deep jewel tones like burgundy or a dark, rich green or purple will blend beautifully with a Victorian theme, but using a white, cream, or ecru cloth will work too.

Multiple layers fabric are typical of the era, so don’t stop with the basic covering. Adding more fabrics is a great way to introduce more color, and there are a great deal of options:

- add an over-cloth of lace, tulle, or any sheer fabric. Look for inexpensive lace cloths in discount stores, and do not forget that you may buy tulle, lace, etc. by the yard in a fabric store.

- go with a spectacular table runner. A richly prettified or vibrantly colored table runner may actually add to the amount of time look. Plain runners from discount stores cost only a few dollars, and with a hot glue gun and numerous imagination braids and trims, they may speedily be dressed up for the extreme Victorian look.

Rustic: Think sturdy, sensible, and handmade when you’re chosing a Christmas tablecloth to compliment a rustic embellishing theme.

-Heavy cottons, bright gingham or calico, and even burlap may all work beautifully as tablecoverings for a rustic theme.

- Multiple layers work with a rustic theme, so use table runners or placements as a way to add color. Try mixing fabrics; a red and green plaid with a poinsettia print, for example.

- Avoid metalics, beading, etc. For decoration stick to brightly colored braids, rick rack, or simple embroidery.

Retro: Clear, bright colors and bold, simple graphics are the hallmarks of retro decorating, so look for classic fifties Christmas colors like white with apple green and fire engine red.

- During the postwar amount of time the conception of streamlining was a big part of design, so don’t go too far with the multi-layer look. Instead, go with a table covering that features a prominent all-over design or a big, bright border print.

- Keep table settings and ornamentations simple.

Most helpful customer reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Great Reto Tablecloth!
By Carol Holmes
I love this tablecloth! I admit I was surprised when I received it as I was expecting it to be made of lightweight cotton. It is not. This is a sturdy cotton (cotton duck?) tablecloth that stands up to daily use. While a bit stiff out of the package, it softens upon washing and use. The washing instructions specify cold water wash and no-heat drying, which is probably best, but I confess I did wash it in warm and used heat to dry it twice now and post-drying dimensions were 51 1/2″ x 53 1/2″. There was just a tiny bit of fading of the red on the edges, no doubt avoidable if I had washed it in cold. A light iron touch up is all that’s needed if you want a crisp look. With large Santas along the border of the tablecloth, and small Santa faces in the center, this is one smile-inducing tablecloth. My family loves it!

Note: Unlike the earlier reviewer, I had no problems with the company that fulfilled my order. It was fulfilled by Hestia Houseworks, and they were great.

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