If you are looking for a regular use tablecloth for the family dining table, then polyester is a great choice.
If you are looking for a formal tablecloth to use when entertaining guests, you may wish to measure the table when it is extended to its maximum size.
Consider using a green tablecloth for covering.
As for entertaining, I would recommend keeping the rush chairs (if they are sturdy) as the extra seating for those occasions and buying a 48-inch round folding table with a floor-length tablecloth and using that for groups larger than your regular table can accommodate.
Re "A Proper Table for Passover, Then Easter" (Online Shopper, March 21), on the writer's plan to use her husband's grandmother's embroidered tablecloth for the family's Easter dinner: Oy, a bubbe's nightmare handworked tablecloth spread for the Easter ham.
What does she have to have a tablecloth for, I wonder, and once I sent her a couple of drawing pins in a matchbox, with instructions for their use.
Look for reusable cutlery, plates, tablecloths, etc. Use recycled paper for anything that you can't have in a reusable form.
You may want to test the tablecloth prior to using it.
For ideas, use a colorful tablecloth, colorful plates, cups, and utensils, signs, balloons on the mailbox, gallons everywhere, and to end the list, just put cool things to keep them busy when you're setting up a game.
Light older than wine and a cloud like a tablecloth spread for lunch under the leaves.
