setting the place

The National Trust guide on duty in this room told us that this being a Georgian House, the cutlery is laid to reflect the fashion of the era: guests would be wearing sleeves with ruffles which would have caught on the knives, forks etc if they had been laid in the usual way.

[Nadiya Bilovodenko]

So amazing !!!

[Dianne]

Interesting and lovely.

[wendy frost]

A great idea . Lovely setting and linen.

[Babs]

Love the green and white of the glasses and the green and white of the crockery.

[Mave]

Lovely place settings

[gloria jones]

Lovely capture of this table setting, nice lighting

[Bep]

Nicely captured dinner table.

[mittens (Marilyn)]

So pretty and interesting information, too.

[Michelle]

Lovely crockery and interesting narrative 😊

[Beryl Lloyd]

Beautiful and graceful ! - but then the maids did all the work !

[Ivan]

Classic...so upper class!

[Sylvia Binch]

It's a whole science. Very pretty though.

[Pyrrhula]

Beautiful dish.

[Catherine]

I love seeing the tables laid out ready for the family to eat. The National Trust do this so well.

[Loopy-Lou]

Lovely shot and interesting information.

[FBailey]

How very interesting!

[Phil Howcroft]

very grand and posh haze, i quite like the idea of ruffles

[Trish Plutz]

I have friends from the UK who still set their tables in this fashion. Lovely!

[Richard Hickey]

Fantastic picture.

[Casablanca]

Oh what an interesting piece of trivia to go with this, I love it!

[David]

Well I though they were laid out like that so you didn't fork or spoon in a load of flies!

[Hazel]

@yrhenwr

You have a practical and enquiring mind I think!!

[Mandy]

That's really interesting because as soon as I saw the photo I spotted particularly the knives. I can see their logic.