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Midcentury modern tablecloth, with a 'mobile' design

Here's one of the very few cloths I've found with an original paper label intact.

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A Carl Tait tablecloth, with Persian inspiration
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Rosemary Zwick Clown Silk-Screen on Linen
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Glass Shelf, by Marlene Linens (posed with Salem Free Form)
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Tablecloth by Marion Dorn (shown with Salem Free Form by Viktor Schreckengost)
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Midcentury modern tablecloth, with a 'mobile' design
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A Leacock cloth, posed with RMS 183
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Red Wing Prismatique: Vase and Compote
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Frankoma Lazybones (in Prairie Green) on a Piepmatz tablecloth
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American Modern plastic tea set, from the Ideal Toy Co.
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Silver Lace: a Russel Wright design for Leacock
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MCM handkerchief with dog theme
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Neptune's Bounty

Tillett seafood tablecloth, posed with a Country Time pot
Tillett tablecloth, with seafood theme

This colorful cloth, depicting the bounty of the sea (fish, mussels, clams, shrimp, even octopi), would work so well in a beachside cottage.

Cocktail Hour

Normandie cocktail set by Old Morgantown
Normandie

At the end of a looooooong week, you really need to have a seat outside (the weather has been so cooperative lately) with a Gin & Tonic in your hand (finished with a generous twist of citr

Shepherd's Purse

Iroquois Casual, Shepherd's Purse, set upon on Leacock Prints, Wheatfield
Amber Waves of Grain

I've heard Russel Wright enthusiasts opine that they prefer Iroquois Casual without the botanical decorations (that Wright himself designed), preserving a certain modernist purity of desig

Paint Roller Plaid

A Russel Wright design made by Leacock
Russel Wright tablecloth

The 'paint roller' effect was pretty modern when Wright designed this cloth in the late 1940s.

TownHouse

TownHouse

TownHouse Original.  Pat Prichard.  1957 calender towel

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Luther Travis

Found this great bar towel recently.  Couldn't resist bringing it home.

Merry & Mughal

A Carl Tait tablecloth, with Persian inspiration
Carl Tait tablecloth

Carl Tait is a textile designer known primarily for his handkerchiefs, recognizable by their chromatic brilliance and quick line-work.