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<p>[QUOTE="ola402, post: 2941672, member: 182"]A friend gave me a NOS tablecloth that she found unopened with her mother's things. They were not the white damask tablecloth kind of household so it was never used and she had never seen it before. I told her I would try to sell it for her on ebay. It seems to be a floral pattern but I noticed a lot of plain space so I opened it up to see if the pattern was just a border. I try not to open old tablecloths because I can never get them refolded correctly. Anyway, I was shocked to find that this tablecloth was NOT hemmed. It has a selvage side but the side which should be hemmed is cut cloth. I thought that maybe someone had cut a larger cloth down to their size, but it is cut on both ends. </p><p><br /></p><p>What is up with this? Was it normal to sell a cloth unhemmed? Here are some photos, does anyone know why it would be this way?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]287220[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]287221[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]287222[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]287223[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ola402, post: 2941672, member: 182"]A friend gave me a NOS tablecloth that she found unopened with her mother's things. They were not the white damask tablecloth kind of household so it was never used and she had never seen it before. I told her I would try to sell it for her on ebay. It seems to be a floral pattern but I noticed a lot of plain space so I opened it up to see if the pattern was just a border. I try not to open old tablecloths because I can never get them refolded correctly. Anyway, I was shocked to find that this tablecloth was NOT hemmed. It has a selvage side but the side which should be hemmed is cut cloth. I thought that maybe someone had cut a larger cloth down to their size, but it is cut on both ends. What is up with this? Was it normal to sell a cloth unhemmed? Here are some photos, does anyone know why it would be this way? [ATTACH=full]287220[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]287221[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]287222[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]287223[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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