Product Description

Terrific Tablecloths from the '40s and '50s is a must have book for anyone interested in textiles. These tablecloths take us back to mom's or grandma's kitchen and the colorful prints inspired by wartime victory gardens, mountain dogwood, and springtime bouquets. And who can forget the wonderful souvenir maps from vacations in Florida? More than 400 color photographs are here to be enjoyed. Captions and updated values make this an invaluable resource for collectors, designers, and antique dealers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1317299 in Books
• Published on: 1998-08-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

About the Author
Loretta Smith Fehling began collecting tablecloths in the 1970s to use on her kitchen table. Her love of the brightly colored fruit and flower designs on the tablecloths led her to a career designing one-of-a-kind clothing from these treasures.

Customer Reviews

Great photos, but not enough text
Although I agree with the other reviewers about the lack of text and collecting information in this book I am very happy with the book overall. The photos are clear and are great for seeing what the various colors used during the time period should look like and what color combinations were used together. It would have been very helpful if there was information included on which colors were more desirable, and which sizes were more desirable or harder to find.

I am a collector of so many varied things though, that I never feel like a book is "too much" for the final result. Yes, it is about $30 but it is a book that I have gone back to time and again to compare with things I've seen in person.

Unfortunately just about ALL of the prices are exactly the same. It almost seems as if they were better left out than to be so unimportant.

Where's the Beef?
The book has beautiful pictures of a nice assortment of vintage tablecloths but absolutely no history or other information regarding them. It was almost like looking at someone's home videos. Rather than "here's where I've been", it is a "here's what I collect". In this case a picture is NOT worth a thousand words. Too expense for the final product.

Terrific Tablecloths?
Being an avid printed tablecloth collector for many years, I was happy to see that a reference book for these lovely tablecloths had finally arrived. I was very disappointed by the fact that there was not much in the way of the history of the tablecloths in this book. I was appalled at the photos of tablecloths that had not been cleaned or ironed! I have yet to order her second book, and only hope that she has paid much more attention to details when it comes to photographing these wonderful old tablecloths!