Are you daydreaming of rich, heavy fabrics and warm colors in falling leaves? Undoubtedly, the lace tablecloths are the key for summer wedding trends. In fact, country decor, glamorous designs, and vintage themes are summer and spring wedding looks depending on the lacey details.
Lace tablecloths are the ideal way of dressing-up any table setting and it offers an air of elegance and sophistication. Lace is versatile; that finding a tablecloth matching the decorating style is easy.
Popular Tablecloth Laces
Lace is a compliant medium woven into endless patterns and designs. Lace features simplistic designs or may be highly intricate. Finding lace tablecloths featuring cotton crochets is possible. A tablecloth made using a lace is suitable for any formal or informal setting, based on the color, fibers, and pattern design.
Some well-known lace styles are:
- Alencon: This was the first lace made during sixteenth century in France. It is referred to as Queen Anne”s lace. The outline may vary including the vases of flowers, birds, and various objects.
- Chantilly: This is a seventeenth century lace made of silk and it was a black lace that was used by widows. It is also available in white lace for the brides and for clothing fashions, besides making elegant tablecloths.
- Battenburg Lace: This is a sixteenth century lace. Patterns are created sewing the Battenburg Lace; also referred to as tape lace. This is created into various designs and patterns. It was popular in the 1940s and 1930s as well.
- Irish Lace: The Irish lace tablecloths are treasured heirlooms. Starting your own heirloom linens collection is possible on buying a lace tablecloth of high-quality.
- Cutwork: A lace featuring cutwork has many holes in the pattern work. You can change the look by removing the fabric or individual threads so that new pattern is created using the lacework. Using tablecloth of solid colors beneath a cutwork cloth looks beautiful as the color peeps from the cutwork and you can use different color tablecloth altering the look.
- Quaker Lace: This was founded in 1911. The company stopped the lace curtains manufacturing during WWII to manufacture camouflaged netting. Quaker lace started producing tablecloths after the war.
- Rose lace: This comes in varying patterns and types ranging from roses in small to oversize and in simple or complex designs.
- Valencia: Valencia is prominent for lace and elegant shawls. It originates from Valencia and is used in household fashions and clothing.
- Scottish Lace: This is the most sought-after laces in origin pattern made in the renowned Nottingham looms in Scotland.
How to use for weddings
Before considering the lace tablecloths for weddings consider the few tips:
- Choose a warm color; add glass and gold accents to the tablescape. You may add base lines in contrast color and consider a dark tablecloth featuring an overlay of lace. You can consider an ivory color lace, if the white lace looks really bright.
- Say not to lace summer decor as it will not offer the expected result. There are wide choices revealing shades and styles chose that is suitable.