Up Your Dinner Party Game With These Illustrated & Embroidered Tablecloths
If you love to host and are looking for something special to elevate your dining table, we’ve found the perfect interior trend. To be honest, whilst we have seen many of these popping up on Instagram and from some of our favourite design brands, it’s not so much a trend as a really personalised, statement piece you’re going to love and use in your home for years to come. Say hello to our edit of illustrated and embroidered tablecloths.
Printed, painted or embroidered with everything from Romanesque faces to delicate hands, pretty plates to plump poissons, these table linens really pack a punch in the personality stakes. They also help to dress the table easily without having to clutter it up with lots of place settings, candlesticks or crockery, but still give that gorgeous layered tablescape look we all love. And there is no denying the joy they will bring to a dinner party set up – if a sexy mermaid seascape, boardgame-printed linen or French baguette design isn’t a conversation starter on the table, we don’t know what is.
This isn’t a cheap high street trend, however. Most of the brands doing these pieces are real works of art to invest in and cherish for years to come – red wine stains welcomed – and it is definitely the more personalised ones that we love the most, from heartfelt handwritten sentiments to your family’s names curved around the dinner plates, or even bespoke guest names handpainted on for a very special, incredibly stylish wedding.
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Arkitaip & Olivia Sewell’s collab is an ode to easy-going Mediterranean life.
Made in collaboration with designer Ofelia Botella and featuring playful screen-printed designs, this is a great house-warming or wedding gift for those who love to host.
Up you games night game with this charming linen printed with all the makings of a fine night in, from chess to snakes and ladders… and of course, martinis.
Designer Cressida Jamieson specialises in the most beautiful bespoke embroidery and will commision her charming needlework onto just about anything. Her handwriting embroidery on a family linen would make for the most special gift.
Decadently designed table cloths made for deboucherous dinner parties.
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