Tafellaken van wit linnendamast met dessin 'Lotos' 1910 - 1950

This is a linen tablecloth with a lotus design, made by Chris Lebeau, but we don't know when. The whole thing's in white, a little faded, a pattern of lotus flowers woven in. You can see it’s been folded, used, loved. I imagine Lebeau, thinking about how something as everyday as a tablecloth could be elevated, could bring beauty into the home. It's funny, isn't it? How a simple thing like a flower, repeated, becomes something else entirely, something almost abstract. Thinking about him working on this, I wonder if he thought about the people who would use it, the meals shared, the conversations had. The cloth must have felt so soft, so precious under his hands. And the way the light catches those woven patterns! You can see he wanted to make something special, something that would last. Isn't that what all artists want, really? To leave something beautiful behind?