Vintage linens that don't match or new ones that do?

Re: Vintage linens that don't match or new ones that do?

• Sue-n-Kevin member

  

  April 2013

  I don't have an issue with mismatched items, however, each item will need to serve it's purpose. If it's a table cover, it is going to have to cover one entire table, not be pieced together with another table cover to fit, if you know what I mean.
  
  I think you probably want the same "family" or "theme", ie every table has a lace table cover, but they don't necessarily have to be identical. You don't indicate your colors, but if you are using white, try for the whitest possible, or if cream, have all of them be cream. Antique items can yellow with age, and you don't really want them to be entirely different shades of "aging".
  
  I'd recommend trying to shoot for something similar on each table, whether it's a table runner or centerpiece. From there you can mismatch, but it looks like a "managed mis-match". I found the perfect fabric for my table runners by searching for black & cream toile curtains. Found them on sale at Penney's, ordered 2 sets, got 6 table runners from each set. Search for floor length curtains on sale at the various online sites like Bed, bath & beyond, Penney's, Walmart, Kmart, etc. Floor length curtains are 84 inches, which if your tables are 6 feet long, allow for a drop on each end of 6 inches.
  
  Good luck.

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