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This textile is a wonderful, antique European hand-woven, heavy hemp table runner or stair runner fabric! Ideal for any period or farmhouse interior! This lovely textile was used to make very heavy grain sacking fabric, but now these bolts make great table runners, rustic pillows, area rugs, and stair runners! This smaller bolt of homespun dates to around 1900 and was 100% woven by hand. Gorgeous! Wonderful caramel stripes in the center and along each edge. The ground tone is a lovely warm natural oatmeal hemp tone! This textile is a wonderful very heavy weight, floppy, extremely durable, and slightly coarse! Lovely twill weave! Each short end is finished in a hand stitched hem. For easy stair runner instructions, please see below, and see condition below.

MEASUREMENTS: This bolt measures approximately:
Width: 18 inches
Length: 160 inches (just under 4.5 yards)

CONDITION: This bolt is in as found, unwashed condition. There are some marks and stains on these beauties due to their age. These imperfections only make these wonderful textiles all the more perfect to us! Each has some little flaw here or there, but generally in wonderful condition, ideal for day to day use!

STAIR RUNNER INSTRUCTIONS: These textiles are built to withstand generations of use~ To measure your stairs, simply lay a piece of string and follow the entire area as the runner will lay, then simply measure the string! ~*~* ~*~ I have sold many many of these rolls as stair runners and people have raved about them for a very long time. Fitting is usually done with a thin felt underlay and then either tacked, nailed or stapled to the stairs or stair rods can be used. This roll would also be wonderful cut into smaller rugs, table runners, stair runners or hallway carpeting OR would make a very rustic table runner~ it has a wonderful unique look, very special indeed~*~ ~*~!!! It would give so much warmth and flair to any room! ~*~ ( I have attached a couple of photographs of my runners in use~ so beautiful, so unique ~ a lovely piece of textile history; brought back to add beauty to our lives today~*~ ) These heavy textiles are far better to either dry clean or spot clean as needed. If laying as a stair runner, simply treat as you would any other rug to clean! ~


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