A table is dressed and stripped twice in an evening, washed hot, and looked at the whole time it is in use. Runners, placemats and napkins in the same 200 TC percale we cut sheets from; cloths in crinkled double-layer cotton gauze, or stonewashed French flax for the tables people photograph.
The gauze cloth comes in four rectangles and three squares, 135 x 135 up to 180 x 300 cm; the linen in three rectangles and one round; napkins and placemats in fours, eights and twelves. Send the cover count and the table dimensions — the awkward ones included — and we will price the rotation rather than a single cloth.
Percale for everything that gets handled, not sateen. Sateen shines under a downlight and a dining room is lit from above. The two cloths are the deliberate exceptions: the gauze crinkles and the linen creases, and both are chosen for how they look rather than how flat they press.