We've wanted some slate table mats for ages. They tend to go for about £15-20 for 4-6 placemats. (In fact, I've just checked and it seems to be £20 for 4 for the bottom-of-the-range)
So, we figured we could do better.
Trip to Build Base (I was actually looking for an architectural salvage yard, but found BuildBase instead, and they did reclaimed slates)
Buy 20 slates for 62p each (and have an extra 5 thrown in for free, because some are a bit damaged)
Go to Dunelm Mill and buy a fleece blanket for £4.99
Get home and chop the blanket into slate size squares (it's a bit tricky, because fleece is a bit of an awkward fabric to work with)
Following the example of the Nester, who seems to have a fascination with glue guns that verges on fetish, hot glue the fleece to the slates.
Hey presto, you've got yourself a whole bunch of tablemats for less than £1 each (including slate, fleece, and glue for glue gun)
They are pretty heavy, which makes carrying them all at once a good workout.
The only down side is that the slate 'splinters' easily, so we have lots of shards on our table cloth. However, I reckon this would be solved by varnishing them, which I may or may not get around to doing one day.
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