Hand woven and embroidered square tablecloth. Ecru background and multicolored flowers embroidered in each corner. Lace trimming all around. The background is ecru with white stripes going across and forming squares. The flowers in each corner are pointed toward the center, with their stems at the bottom. At the top, there is a yellow flower with blue coming out of it and with a blue and a red string of circles on seperate stems above it. Below the yellow flower, there is a blue flower, which is made of multiple different shades. It has seven petals. Below this, there is a green leaf followed by a red flower, which is also made up of different shades of red. Both the blue and the red flowers have yellow centers. Under the red flower, there is a green leaf. On the opposite side of the main stem, there is a green leaf on the bottom followed by a bigger blue flower that has small yellow circles in the middle. Then there is a string of yellow circles above it, followed by a string of red circles, follwed by a leaf and then two green circles. Around the bottom of the flowers, there are alternating red and yellow five petaled flowers, where the center of the flower is the opposited color.

This tablecloth was hand woven and hand embroidered.

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