Giveaway: Vintage Linens, Anyone?

While we were hard at basement-cleaning last weekend, I discovered a bunch of vintage linens I got from my dad when he appraised an estate in Saratoga years ago.

I washed and ironed what I found and decided that these are things I'm just not going to use.  If you'd like them, speak up!

1. The Downton Abbey of dinner napkins:  Giant (26" square),  very high thread-count cotton, with a slight sheen, a tiny white-on-white polka dot,  and a monogram I can't for the life of me make out. 

The textured-look is a camera error.  The fabric is very smooth.

 

 

Indecipherable but pretty

 

2.  A lace doily, 9-1/2" x 16-1/2". 

3.  Set of 8 lightweight cotton placemats, 11" x 17", with 6 matching napkins, 6" square.  I think these are a "luncheon set," but who knows.

 

 

 

4.  And one non-vintage table runner, never used, that I bought at Crate and Barrel.  You need a long table for this one:  It's 14" x 120".

 

 

The back is navy blue

 

Next stop:  thrift shop!