Delfina Blue Floral Lace Tablecloth
Which size, and how much drop do you want?
Five of the six sizes are 140 cm wide, so for most tables you are only picking a length. Measure your table, then add roughly 12 to 51 cm to the length for a drop at each end. With a lace edge you want that drop to be visible — a lace border that stops flat on the table top is a lace border nobody sees.
| Choose | If this sounds like you |
|---|---|
| 140 × 140 cm | A square kitchen table, or a round one where you want the corners to hang down in four points. The size people also use on a small side table by a window. |
| 140 × 180 cm | The standard four-seater. If you have a normal dining table and you are not sure, start here. |
| 140 × 200 cm | A four-seater where you want more drop, or a slightly longer table that the 180 cm would only just cover. |
| 140 × 220 cm | Six seats, or a table that spends most of its life extended because somebody works at it during the week. |
| 140 × 260 cm | A long dining table, or a household where Christmas means both leaves in and chairs borrowed from the hall. |
| 140 × 300 cm | A farmhouse table, or two tables pushed end to end for a party and you want one continuous cloth over the join. |
If you are between sizes, go longer. A little extra pools softly at the corners; a little too short shows the table legs.
Is lace too delicate for a table people actually eat at?
Lace is fine with food and fine with washing — what it does not tolerate is being snagged and being ironed hot. Nearly every ruined lace cloth was ruined by a wristwatch, a zip in the drum, or an iron set for cotton.
| Fine with this | Avoid |
|---|---|
| Everyday meals, candles in holders, a cool gentle wash on its own, line drying, a cool iron on the plain areas | Washing it with anything that has a zip, hook or velcro, hot water, a hot iron directly on the lace, hot dishes straight onto the cloth, rings and watches dragged across the openwork |
Practical version: wash it alone, cool and gentle, line dry, and press the plain fabric only. The skipped step is putting it inside a pillowcase or a mesh bag before it goes in the machine — thirty seconds of effort that removes the single most common way a lace cloth gets destroyed.
Sunday lunch starts looking like an occasion again, without anyone doing more work.
There is a version of dinner where everyone eats off a bare table with their phones face-up next to the plates, and a version where the table is laid and nobody quite knows why they lingered afterwards. The cloth is most of that difference. Lace in particular does something no plain cloth manages: the openwork lets the wood tone of the table show faintly through, so the table is still present rather than hidden under a slab of fabric.

Openwork lace is why this works on a dark table as well as a pale one
A solid cloth has to be matched to the room, because it replaces the table surface entirely. Lace does not replace it — it sits over it. The gaps in the pattern pick up whatever is underneath, so the same cloth reads warm over oak, cooler over grey-painted wood, and crisper over glass. That is unusual, and it is the reason a lace cloth tends to survive a house move and a redecoration when a plain one does not.
The blue floral does the other half. Lace on its own can tip into looking like a doily; a defined blue floral pattern gives the cloth structure and stops the whole thing reading as fussy white openwork. It also means the cloth has a clear front and centre, which makes laying the table straightforward — you line the pattern up with the table centre and everything else follows.
- 140 × 140 cm — square tables, round tables, and side tables that need something over them.
- 140 × 180 cm — the standard four-seater size and the most common starting point.
- 140 × 200 cm — a four-seater with a longer drop, or a slightly oversized table.
- 140 × 220 cm — six seats, or a table that stays extended through the week.
- 140 × 260 cm — long dining tables and full-house occasions.
- 140 × 300 cm — farmhouse tables, or two tables joined for a party under one cloth.

What You're Getting
- One Delfina Blue Floral Lace Tablecloth in your chosen Size
- Six sizes — 140 × 140 cm, 140 × 180 cm, 140 × 200 cm, 140 × 220 cm, 140 × 260 cm and 140 × 300 cm
- Blue floral pattern that gives the lace structure instead of leaving it looking like plain openwork
- Openwork lace that lets the table underneath show through, so it suits dark and pale tables alike
- Clear centre pattern, which makes lining it up on the table quick
- Machine wash cool and gentle, on its own — ideally inside a mesh bag or pillowcase
- Line dry, and press only the plain areas with a cool iron
- Use a trivet — hot dishes are the one thing lace will not forgive
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- Domestic — 4–7 business days
- UK & Europe — 7–14 business days
- Everywhere else — 10–18 business days
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