{"title":"Italian Tablecloths","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery tablecloth here comes from one workshop: Borgo delle Tovaglie, which has hand-made table linen in a Bologna atelier since 2005, run today by Valentina Muggia and Giuliano Di Paolo. We stock them because they treat a tablecloth the way a good tailor treats a jacket - as something cut, finished and edged by hand, meant to be used for decades rather than replaced each season.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection runs from the quiet to the theatrical. \u003cstrong\u003eBauhaus\u003c\/strong\u003e puts clean geometry in a single saturated colour onto plain linen, after the weaving workshop at the Bauhaus. \u003cstrong\u003eSfogliatella\u003c\/strong\u003e layers four sheets of linen gauze into ruffles named for the Neapolitan pastry, finished with a cord-embroidered edge. \u003cstrong\u003eRiviera\u003c\/strong\u003e is finished with an entredeux - a narrow band of openwork hemstitching between field and border, the detail that gives the cloth its lightness. \u003cstrong\u003eLudo\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eErica\u003c\/strong\u003e carry the large-scale florals of the chintz tradition, in the lineage of the palampores India sent to Europe in the seventeenth century; Ludo adds a long, knotted fringe in the colours of the cloth. \u003cstrong\u003eFilo\u003c\/strong\u003e is the plainest of all: a single line of contrasting cord embroidery around the edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost designs come in several sizes, from a square 170 cm cloth for a small table to 350 cm for a long dining table, with matching placemats and napkins in the same lines. Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/theleopard.com.au\/blogs\/makers\/how-to-care-for-italian-linen\"\u003ecaring for Italian linen\u003c\/a\u003e, or browse the full \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/theleopard.com.au\/collections\/borgo-delle-tovaglie\"\u003eBorgo delle Tovaglie\u003c\/a\u003e collection and the rest of our \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/theleopard.com.au\/collections\/table\"\u003etable\u003c\/a\u003e pieces. Pieces ship Australia-wide from our shop in Moss Vale, in the Southern Highlands of NSW.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bauhaus-tablecloth-blumarine-mastice","title":"Bauhaus tablecloth - Blumarine-Mastice","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorgo delle Tovaglie has been hand-making linens in a Bologna atelier since 2005, run today by Valentina Muggia and Giuliano Di Paolo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Bauhaus school opened in Weimar in 1919 and brought the discipline of fine art to the everyday object. Its weaving workshop - Gunta Stölzl, then Anni Albers - made some of the century's most rigorous textiles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorgo Delle Tovaglie's Bauhaus collection sits in that tradition: clean geometry, a single saturated colour set against a quiet linen ground.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Borgo delle Tovaglie","offers":[{"title":"170cm x 170cm","offer_id":48910353432803,"sku":null,"price":420.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"170cm x 270cm","offer_id":48910353465571,"sku":null,"price":560.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"170cm x 350cm","offer_id":48910353498339,"sku":null,"price":760.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0752\/5230\/2051\/files\/tovaglia-bauhaus-in-lino_1.jpg?v=1777958498"},{"product_id":"bauhaus-tablecloth-mastice-fern","title":"Bauhaus tablecloth - Mastice-Fern","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorgo delle Tovaglie has been hand-making linens in a Bologna atelier since 2005, run today by Valentina Muggia and Giuliano Di Paolo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Bauhaus school opened in Weimar in 1919 and brought the discipline of fine art to the everyday object. 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