Tablecloth without a Table

I was thinking if you wanted a regular sized table you would need a ginormous piece of fabric. Glass on top of the surface to protect it from spills? Would you put it on a real table to dry? But then how would you take it off? Maybe PAM? Just thinking out loud :)

Here's a ridiculously extravagant chair by Marcel Wanders for Droog Design. The rope (aramid and carbon fibre) is soaked in some sort of epoxy resin and left to set. Perhaps we all could learn something from Marcel. I think that liquid resin is relatively cheap to buy and once you get the shape correct with fishing line or a small frame you're in business.

Wow, that is impressive :)

Seems to me that if you used clear acrylic sheets for legs and a top to which the tablecloth was affixed, it would give the illlusion of suspension. A bit of creative folding would disguide the support system.

wait so how'd you make this again?

One could even use stiff wire to hold it up or help hold it up.

Of, if you want to get tricky for a not so up close-up illusion just hang it from the four corners with nylon fishing line ;-)

my grandparents used to have a little knitted "bowl" type thing it was "petrified" using sugar

Diluted white glue like Elmer's works also. You can make lace lamp shades that way. Because the glue is water soluble, you can even drop the shade in the washing machine from time to time, and just dip it and shape it again after it comes out. If I had a lace doily, I'd demonstrate it, but I'm fresh out of lace doilies. I was talking to my Mom about something like this (I don't remember what it was). My Mom was born in 1940 so her teen years were the 50's. She told me that back in the 50's the girls in her school stiffened their crinolines with Coca Cola. Crinolines are the slips made of layers of fabric worn under 50's skirts - like the poodle skirts - to make them stand out in a bell shape. She said starch didn't hold up as well as coke. She'd dip the crinoline in coke and then hang it, fluff it up and let it dry. She said the girls just left their crinolines standing in the corner at home. They couldn't hang them in the closet because they would get crushed. She also said it was a problem if it was hot out, and your legs were sweating, as the crinoline would get sticky, and glue itself to your legs. When a date picked her up in a car, she'd step out of the crinoline, and stand it in the back seat before she sat down. If the girls sat on the crinoline during a long car ride, they'd end up with a flat backside, and more likely than not, it would be glued to the back of their legs. She dated a guy with a convertible once, and had to put the crinoline in the trunk because it would blow out of the back seat. On the first date, she tried to leave it on, and they only got a couple of blocks when she realized it needed to come off. The air blowing through the car kept her skirt pasted to her face unless she held it down. Girls would make their boyfriends stop one block away from the destination, so they could put their crinoline on and arrive all stylish and poofy. Mom was very fashion conscious, and never wanted to look less than perfect. I'm sure she wasn't the only teenage girl that went to these lengths to look good. It was a goofy conversation. We laughed a lot. I'd never heard anything about coca cola crinolines, or all the problems they had to work around. Now they are made of synthetics that don't flatten down.

That's sweet. And awesome.

Wow, not even a sheet of plexi underneath? NEAT!!

:O >Gets to work<