Tablecloths - do you use them ?

Not often.

Usually I just scrub and polish surfaces after meals. Islands are granite, worktops and dining tables quite old walnut. Lots of children come round, we like ease of care.

Our lovely pine table for 8 a friend made for us way back in the 80s was much used and abused over the years, but on special occasions I did use a tablecloth. Two inherited and another also hand made bought in Portugal at a local market.
Now never use one we have a Dekton table which is bullet proof , or almost, a simple wipe and clean.
Making memories around the "new" table now.

Christmas only with special cloths. The rest of the time a protector and Dunelm oilcloth.

I live alone now so eat with a tray on my knee or else sit at the kitchen counter. On the rare occasions family eat here then it's always a heat protection mat, a tablecloth and linen napkins.

As we have a living room/ dining room our table gets used for everything! So we have an oil cloth table cloth on it all the time and fabric ones for Sundays and special days. As it was my mums table so quite special I try to take care of it.

Certainly do !
I have three Provence-style waxed heavy cotton ones that I rotate.
Wash in the machine and iron hot (on the non-waxed side😂)
and Bob's your auntie.
I've had them for years.

no table now sadly but when I did I kept using tablemats cloths etc so pretty
to be honest the antimacassars were damn useful would be no good on a leather sofa but a cloth one with arm caps did look so nice and dressed

I have an extendable table which I have hung onto over the years (despite ex wanting to get rid of it. lol it was him who went). I use the table a lot for craft/sewing projects and need the big table when layering larger quilts and blocking crochet items.

It's covered by a heat protector and lately by a liquid resistant ,pretty, pale cream tablecloth I got new in a charity shop.

The cream cover was going to be given to my DD but I decided to keep it for myself and am so glad I did. The cream colour really brightens the room and I have various sets of quilted place mats I've made to use for different occasions.

Growing up, our table always had a chenille cloth but a cotton/gingham one was placed on top for meals and .yes, the crumbs were shaken off outside after meals. Jeez, this is taking me back ....

I used to use tablecloths, but haven`t had a table for several years now. There`s only me and I have my plate on my knee, sometimes I use a small folding table.

Christmas Day only, our table is very forgiving, if we have people for dinner we use mays.

Calendargirl

Always have a tablecloth on the table at mealtimes.

Catches crumbs and any ‘bits’.

Then after we finish, I ‘shake the cloth’ outside.

Not bothered if fashionable or not.

This brings back what was probably my earliest memory as a little toddler. I was in the home of my Great-Grandparents and someone shook the tablecloth. I was mesmerised.

I use an easy-wash cotton tablecloth in the kitchen because I like the cheerful look of it (and the table isn't the greatest anyway). The dining table, in multi-use all the time, only gets used for eating on special occasions - then I go all out with hand-made linen (undercloth, overcloth & napkins), all embroidered and/or crocheted by me and other family members (it's just occurred to me that they are all dead now, so another good reason to keep the tradition alive).

I use a tablecloth and I also use placemats. At Christmas time I use a thick vinyl Chrismassy one. It's great as it's wipe clean -as there seems to be a permanent display of food over a few days. It's also very pretty.

There is an oilcloth for everyday, mainly to protect the table when my little grandsons are here and I have a special linen Christmas one

Yes as mentioned by others we have a heat protector undercloth too. Meant o say...

I’ve always used a tablecloth, an oilcloth one for every day and a variety of cotton and linen ones for ‘occasions’.

I do. I have one hanging on the washing line right now.

I bought a beautiful Indian tablecloth from a charity shop £8. It was so lovely, I couldn’t just leave it in the shop. It’s large and covers my table and makes the room look very stylish. It has a couple of faded areas but I love it.
At my seaside house we have a bare wood table so just place mats are used.

I have always used a tablecloth when eating at the dining table. I enjoy dressing it with cloth napkins, sisal mats, candles, flowers, nice glasses etc

I have inherited all the cloths from both sides of the family. I tend to use the easy to wash non-iron ones the most.

I embarrassed myself on Boxing day when I managed to spill throw a large glass of red wine across a perfect white linen cloth at my DD's mother in law's house.

She said it didn't matter whilst moving us all to another room while she extracted the cloth and plunged it into a bucket of stain remover, bleach?
Do you suppose I'll ever be invited back?

I have always used a tablecloth and two out of three children do as well, the other one does at Christmas

We never use a tablecloth on our old rustic table in our kitchen/diner but do in the formal dining room. Actually I have loads of tablecloths that I have collected over the years.

I was always afraid that toddlers would snatch at the cloth and pull something hot onto themselves so stopped using.
Never bothered after that, same with any “grabbable” jewellery 😌

We have a very very old rustic pine table and I always use a table cloth as when we first had it MzOops put a saucepan on it straight from the cooker and burnt it.

When the GCs were staying with us ( they stayed a lot) I bought a waterproof one, with a fleecy back, it’s on the table at the moment as my preferred one is in the wash, they always loved to see ‘their’ table cloth and used we when painting and gluing, just a wipe over and it was good for putting the plates on to eat.

I have a Cath Kidston one which MzOops says gives her a migraine (!) so that’s packed away as she’s been staying here and a very pretty pale oilcloth one that I use in the summer.

No matching napkins , but some pretty Vintage ones that we use, (if we have a take away we get the kitchen roll out).

I also use my Mums table cloths too.

Gosh I’m turning into an old lady, it’ll be antimacassars on the sofa next!

At Christmas a red one, I like to go with a red and green Christmas theme, and dress the dining room with candles and other paraphernalia at that time of the year. Normally no tablecloth, we only eat in the dining room when we have visitors. When it's the two of us we eat at the breakfast bar in the kitchen. I do like oil cloth type table cloths, that can be wiped, very practical, I always had one of those on a kitchen table, in the house we had when the children were young.

I have a lovely oval dining table and the only time the surface has seen the light of day was when we were selling our last house when it had a crystal bowl full of flowers on it. They reflected beautifully in the polished wood which has a lovely grain. The rest of the time it has a heat protector and a cloth on it and is in use every day. Its a waste really; it deserves to be seen. These days I tend to use a wipeable cloth which looks like linen. I bought it from Dunelm.