Buy Mode Blitz: CTNutmegger's Tablecloths
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hat_plays_simsCTNutmegger's tablecloths (texture-referenced by hkaw, you're getting every mesh I found) come in the lead 1x2, 1x1 round, 1x1 square, 1x2 again but slightly lowered/remapped, and 1x3 versions. I have done them in 85 colors (Pooklet Project Mayhem natural, Aelia Autumn, and CuriousB Any Color You Like full sets, with a bonus of Aelia's Eco Ecru, Vanilla, and Beige to round out my usual eight linens) all on Magpie's linen texture. Yes, including things like Flash Powder, Mango, and Chocolate. Your Sims' wedding colors are their business, not mine. Or maybe you need to set up a trade show or something where every table has to have a flame-retardant tablecloth and vendors do like to stand out by using different colors (my tablecloths for miniature shows are black).
There are two versions, one with a simple hem that isn't denoted in any way, and FANCY, which has a strip of darker-self-embroidery. My original goal was to get that fancy version a lot fancier, but my notes say that would've taken making the textures, like, four times larger, and nobody wants that when I've gone and made 170 of the things.
Meshes! I may be missing the different 1x2s in this shot. Anyway, as you can see, some tables cover flawlessly, others clip right through due to being a couple pixels higher than others. Or in the case of the Castaway Stories table, being made of round bamboo slats. You will, alas, have to experiment-- but as long as you can get something with some kind of legs under there, you can also make use of floating table extensions-- Ailias and the Buggy Niche sets have some of those!
Additionally, these tablecloths have NO UNDERSIDES. You can't take under-the-table pics. (They are, however, alpha-editable.) If you want to make your own fancy, patterned tablecloth recolors, I did learn that the best way to do that is to use a pattern that's vertically AND horizontally symmetrical. (No lines unless they're gingham or plaid.)
The plain, unmarked, simply-hemmed variation, shown in Ecru and Vanilla. Generally Medieval tablecloths would have been white linen, as white as the laundress could get 'em, because that's a bit of conspicuous consumption right there-- everybody needed linen cloth, and reasonably fine linen cloth at that, because as much as possible you don't actually want your wool clothes (or hats or hoods) up against your skin or hair. All the thread was hand-spun and every shuttle pass made by human hands to weave the cloth, so a simple pair of linen underpants could represent a week's worth of dedicated labor, from retting to spinning to weaving to sewing. Cover your table in fine white cloth that someone could be wearing and you look well-off even before you get into fancy weaves or embroidery.
And it probably would have been embroidery like this, around the edges and in linen thread, just to add texture (or an all-over woven pattern that I could not make work with the patience I had in me)-- because you do have to wash the heck out of your table linens, and that's a violent process involving first a lye solution to break up the grease and then bashing the crap out of them with clubs down at the creek or the stream or the washing-well, which was actually a fountain. Then they were wrung mostly-dry by twisting them around sturdy posts as hard as possible. It was no place for delicate silk thread or dyes that might run.
... Also you messed with a washerwoman at your own risk.
So are these period as tablecloths, yes! But only if you dig through and collect my usual eight linens-- Pooklet Time Bomb, ACYL Milk, Aelia Eco Ecru, ACYL Oyster, Eco Vanilla, Pooklet Primer, Eco Beige, and Pooklet Grenade. The dyed versions...
Well, I actually have seen tables draped in dyed fabric-- even fancy multicolored weaves-- but what's on them is never food, or even dishes. It's usually books, protecting them from the surface of a table that might be used for other things most of the time.
But that's period. If your game is modern, or just post-industrial-revolution, when dyed cloth got cheaper, you can do whatever the heck you want.
Pooklet Project Mayhem Naturals: SWATCH | DOWNLOAD
Aelia Autumn: SWATCH | DOWNLOAD
CuriousB Any Color You Like: SWATCH | DOWNLOAD
Aelia Eco Ecru, Vanilla, and Beige:SWATCH TRUST ME? | DOWNLOAD
Behold the Tip Jar!
In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'
There are two versions, one with a simple hem that isn't denoted in any way, and FANCY, which has a strip of darker-self-embroidery. My original goal was to get that fancy version a lot fancier, but my notes say that would've taken making the textures, like, four times larger, and nobody wants that when I've gone and made 170 of the things.
Meshes! I may be missing the different 1x2s in this shot. Anyway, as you can see, some tables cover flawlessly, others clip right through due to being a couple pixels higher than others. Or in the case of the Castaway Stories table, being made of round bamboo slats. You will, alas, have to experiment-- but as long as you can get something with some kind of legs under there, you can also make use of floating table extensions-- Ailias and the Buggy Niche sets have some of those!
Additionally, these tablecloths have NO UNDERSIDES. You can't take under-the-table pics. (They are, however, alpha-editable.) If you want to make your own fancy, patterned tablecloth recolors, I did learn that the best way to do that is to use a pattern that's vertically AND horizontally symmetrical. (No lines unless they're gingham or plaid.)
The plain, unmarked, simply-hemmed variation, shown in Ecru and Vanilla. Generally Medieval tablecloths would have been white linen, as white as the laundress could get 'em, because that's a bit of conspicuous consumption right there-- everybody needed linen cloth, and reasonably fine linen cloth at that, because as much as possible you don't actually want your wool clothes (or hats or hoods) up against your skin or hair. All the thread was hand-spun and every shuttle pass made by human hands to weave the cloth, so a simple pair of linen underpants could represent a week's worth of dedicated labor, from retting to spinning to weaving to sewing. Cover your table in fine white cloth that someone could be wearing and you look well-off even before you get into fancy weaves or embroidery.
And it probably would have been embroidery like this, around the edges and in linen thread, just to add texture (or an all-over woven pattern that I could not make work with the patience I had in me)-- because you do have to wash the heck out of your table linens, and that's a violent process involving first a lye solution to break up the grease and then bashing the crap out of them with clubs down at the creek or the stream or the washing-well, which was actually a fountain. Then they were wrung mostly-dry by twisting them around sturdy posts as hard as possible. It was no place for delicate silk thread or dyes that might run.
... Also you messed with a washerwoman at your own risk.
So are these period as tablecloths, yes! But only if you dig through and collect my usual eight linens-- Pooklet Time Bomb, ACYL Milk, Aelia Eco Ecru, ACYL Oyster, Eco Vanilla, Pooklet Primer, Eco Beige, and Pooklet Grenade. The dyed versions...
Well, I actually have seen tables draped in dyed fabric-- even fancy multicolored weaves-- but what's on them is never food, or even dishes. It's usually books, protecting them from the surface of a table that might be used for other things most of the time.
But that's period. If your game is modern, or just post-industrial-revolution, when dyed cloth got cheaper, you can do whatever the heck you want.
Aelia Autumn: SWATCH | DOWNLOAD
CuriousB Any Color You Like: SWATCH | DOWNLOAD
Aelia Eco Ecru, Vanilla, and Beige:
Behold the Tip Jar!
In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'
