Antique Table Linens -- Uses For Them?

[Saskia Calico]

Actually, this idea seems kinda weird, but one of them might make a great mat for my TV cart, and another might make a good dust cover for my printer.

Thank you all for the ideas you posted and the inspiration for ideas in my head.

[Saskia Calico]

Originally Posted by Threestep

We use old Irish linen every day. A pain to starch and iron but a nice touch.

It sounds wonderful. But the starching and ironing ... I know how, I just don't want to do it.

[ukrkoz]

They are not really antique, truly, but they do have value, both emotional to you and being hand crafted.
So if they are pretty and noticed by guests, I'd keep them just for what they are - table linens. If you have formal dinning room, that's where they go.

I'd go to Walmart and buy plastic table cover, clear kind. They sell them in rolls. Then cover that linen. No need to ruin it.

You could, thus, turn entire room into sort of family sanctuary, should you have mo items from the epoch, to place on walls or else. You likely do. Those things become progressively rare and add charm to the house that you can't buy anywhere else. Makes it ruly YOUR home. heritage. It's priceless.

[Ohiogirl81]

Originally Posted by Saskia Calico

I don't do the sort of entertaining that calls for table linens

Why don't you use them? There's no reason you can't use pretty things every day.

Like the old Clairol ad used to say: "You're worth it."

[emm74]

I'm glad you posted, OP, and are being inspired to think outside the box to come up with different ways to use and enjoy these linens. That's the important part, that they are used and loved, and it doesn't have to be the original function for that.

Another place could be on your bedroom dresser if that fits your decor style. I have a few small containers on there to drop in jewelry and hair bands and little bits and bobs at the end of the day, and they would look nice on top of a pretty place mat. Perhaps something like that would work for you.