Rustic Ink-Style Print Table Cloth
Which size do I need — and is the small one really a tablecloth?
No, and that's deliberate. 46 × 61 cm is a mat, not a cloth. Everything from 89 × 140 cm up is a table covering. Measure your tabletop, add eight to twelve inches, then pick.
| Choose | If this sounds like you |
|---|---|
| 46 × 61 cm | You want the ink print under a single place setting, a tray, or a kettle and cups on the counter. Buy a few and they work as mats. |
| 89 × 140 cm | A narrow console, a hall table, or a small two-seater pushed against the wall where a 140 cm-wide cloth would overhang badly. |
| 140 × 140 cm | A square table or a small round — the corners fall into even points and the print reads as one whole composition. |
| 140 × 180 cm | The everyday four-to-six seater. Dinner, homework, laptop, repeat. |
| 140 × 220 cm | A six-to-eight seater, or a table with the extension leaf permanently in. |
The mat and the cloth are the same print, so a 140 × 220 cm on the table with 46 × 61 cm mats on the sideboard reads as one set.
Will the ink-style print survive real meals?
The thing that kills a printed cloth is almost never the food — it's what you do to the cloth afterwards. Hot water and bleach lift the print faster than any sauce ever stains it.
| Do this | Avoid this |
|---|---|
| Blot a spill immediately with a dry cloth, then spot-treat cool | Rubbing at it hot, which drives the stain into the weave and greys the ink around it |
| Machine wash cold on gentle, ideally turned inside out | Bleach or an oxygen booster — the soft grey-blue tones of an ink print go first |
| Line dry out of direct sun, or tumble low, then iron on the reverse | Drying it in full sunlight, which bleaches printed tone unevenly across the fold lines |
The step people skip: ironing from the back. A hot plate straight onto an ink print can gloss it, and the shine doesn't come out.
A tablecloth that reads as a brushstroke rather than a wallpaper sample.
Most printed tablecloths have the same tell: the pattern repeats on a tight grid, edge to edge, with the mechanical evenness of something generated rather than drawn. You notice it about four seconds after the cloth goes down. An ink-style print works the other way — loose forms, soft edges where the pigment bleeds into the ground, and areas of open space between the motifs. It's the difference between a table that has a design on it and a table that has a picture on it.

Why the open space in the print does the work
Busy tablecloths lose to plates. Put six white dinner plates, glasses and a serving dish on a densely patterned cloth and the pattern turns to visual noise — there's no rest anywhere, so the eye can't settle on the food or the cloth. Ink-style printing leaves the ground clear between the motifs, which gives the setting somewhere to breathe. The plates read as objects on a surface rather than shapes cut out of a pattern.
It also means the cloth still looks good when the table is empty, which is the state a dining table spends most of its week in. A dense repeat with nothing on it looks like a bolt of fabric. This one looks like a table someone thought about.
The tonal range helps too. Ink-style printing works in gradations rather than flat colour blocks, so as the light changes through the day the print shifts with it instead of sitting there at the same intensity from breakfast to bedtime.
How the sizes work together
- 46 × 61 cm — mat scale. Under a place setting, a teapot, or a plant pot on a windowsill.
- 89 × 140 cm — the narrow cloth. For consoles and tables that live against a wall.
- 140 × 140 cm — square, and the size where the ink composition reads most completely as one image.
- 140 × 180 cm — the standard family rectangle, with a clean drop on all four sides.
- 140 × 220 cm — the long one, where the print stretches out and the open ground between motifs really shows.

What You're Getting
- One Rustic Ink-Style Print Table Cloth in your chosen size — 46 × 61 cm, 89 × 140 cm, 140 × 140 cm, 140 × 180 cm, or 140 × 220 cm
- Ink-style print with soft edges and open ground rather than a tight mechanical repeat
- One mat size and four cloth sizes in the same print, so pieces can be mixed as a set
- Finished edges on all four sides
- Machine washable cold on gentle, inside out
- Line dry out of direct sun, or tumble low
- Iron on the reverse — direct heat can gloss the print
- No bleach, and blot spills cool rather than scrubbing them hot
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Shipping Info
Processing
Orders are packed and dispatched within 1–2 business days of payment.
Delivery times
- USA — 5–9 business days
- Domestic — 4–7 business days
- UK & Europe — 7–14 business days
- Everywhere else — 10–18 business days
Tracking
Every order ships with end-to-end tracking. You’ll get a tracking link by email the moment your parcel leaves the warehouse.
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If a piece doesn’t feel right in your home, get in touch within 30 days of delivery. We’ll arrange a refund or exchange — whichever you prefer.
No essays required. No restocking fees. Just a quick email to support@loftandstone.com and we’ll take it from there.
Fewer than 1% of customers ever need to use this, but the option’s always there — because home should feel like home.