{"title":"Placemats","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"serene-aqua-linen-placemat","title":"Serene Aqua Linen Placemat","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Serene Aqua Linen Placemat is a 30 x 45cm linen placemat in a soft aqua. Linen is durable enough for daily use and softens with washing. Machine washable on a gentle cold cycle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAqua is an uncommon choice for table linen and a considered one. Most placemats hedge towards neutrals, whereas a soft blue-green brings actual colour to a setting while staying calm enough not to fight with the food.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt pairs particularly well with white china, where the contrast is clean, and with timber, where the cool tone balances the warmth. Linen is the right fibre for something that gets washed constantly: it takes repeated laundering without thinning and gets softer rather than rougher over time. At 30 x 45cm it accommodates a dinner plate with room around it for cutlery and a glass, which is what a placemat needs to do. Iron on low if it creases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Biku Living \u0026 Design","offers":[{"title":"30 X 45cm \/ Aqua","offer_id":44631324360918,"sku":"21S133","price":6.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0914\/4688\/products\/serene-aqua-linen-placemat-840238.webp?v=1699557930"},{"product_id":"elegant-noir-linen-placemat","title":"Elegant Noir Linen Placemat","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Elegant Noir Linen Placemat is a 30 x 45cm placemat in premium linen, in a deep black. The dark ground makes plated food stand out sharply. Gentle cold machine wash.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlack under a plate does something worth understanding before choosing it. It maximises contrast, so pale food and white china read vividly against it, which is why restaurants use dark surfaces for plating. At home the same effect makes an ordinary meal look considered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe trade-off is that black is less forgiving of crumbs and lint than a mid-tone, so it wants a shake-out between courses. Linen handles the frequent washing that implies, softening rather than degrading. At 30 x 45cm the proportions take a full dinner setting. It suits a formal table, but it works just as well making a weeknight meal feel deliberate, which is arguably the better use.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Biku Living \u0026 Design","offers":[{"title":"30 X 45cm \/ Black","offer_id":44631324393686,"sku":"21W077","price":8.25,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0914\/4688\/products\/elegant-noir-linen-placemat-712974.webp?v=1699557088"},{"product_id":"artisanal-weave-natural-dining-mat","title":"Artisanal Weave Natural Dining Mat","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Artisanal Weave Natural Dining Mat is a 30 x 45cm handwoven mat in a natural tone. The weave gives it texture that a printed mat cannot match. Shake off crumbs and spot clean as needed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA woven mat behaves differently to a flat textile one. The texture is structural rather than printed, so it catches light across the surface and gives a table setting something tactile before anyone picks up a fork.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat texture is also why the care is different. Rather than machine washing, these want a shake-out and spot cleaning, which is less convenient but keeps the weave from distorting. The natural undyed tone sits with essentially any tableware, which makes it the most flexible of the placemat options. It leans rustic, though against plain white china it reads more contemporary than you might expect. Handwoven, so slight irregularities in the weave are inherent to the making.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Biku Living \u0026 Design","offers":[{"title":"30 X 45cm \/ Natural","offer_id":44631324426454,"sku":"23S192","price":2.51,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0914\/4688\/products\/artisanal-weave-natural-dining-mat-264931.webp?v=1699556556"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0914\/4688\/collections\/placemats-602001.jpg?v=1685512091","url":"https:\/\/biku-2.myshopify.com\/collections\/placemats.oembed","provider":"Biku Living \u0026 Design","version":"1.0","type":"link"}