Linen Tablecloths

Whether or not you celebrate the festival of Easter there are plenty of reasons to make the next few weeks special.

Woohoo! Here's the second instalment of our interview series, A Simple Path, which explores how inspiring, creative people are doing more with less.

If you thought doing laundry was a chore, we've got some fascinating historical facts about how people cared for linen before modern washing machines and Persil made an appearance.

This time of year is hectic. All that time spent running around getting things for other people, finding costumes for Nativity plays, baking things, throwing parties and trying to keep the peace within our families.

Browsing for linen and baffled by words like 'huckaback' and 'thread count'? Don't know your stonewash from your garment wash?

Table and kitchen linens take a bit of a hammering, what with wine spills, candle wax drips, lipstick marks and food stains.