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Always getting told off, because I couldn’t resist pulling out the threads

Sara I was just going to write the same. Had a candle wick dressing gown too. Very bald in places

My mum gave me a couple of white candlewick bedspreads when we had our first house. I put them in the spare room but thought them rather dreary, so I dyed them orange, as one did in the '70s! I don't think my mum was impressed. They must have gone to a charity shop before too long.

I had a pink one on my bed as a child. I thought it lovely and comfy, 'at the time'.
I know the catalogue you mean musicgirl I have often puzzled over it's contents.

My mum used to be sent a little catalogue regularly, with what seemed the ugliest things from years gone by in it.

It was expensive, too!

I still have 2 very cheap candlewick bedspreads, used as dust sheets when decorating.

I quite like them

They are useful to put under a sand play table as the sand get caught up in the ridges.

We had a brown one for a wedding present, I dyed it purple

I have a large vintage Diane Cowpe bedspread with a raised rose pattern, still good but I have to keep giving it to my D to put in her washing machine as it has a bigger drum. Because it's white I have to remember to fold it to the bottom of the bed or the cats jump on it with wet paws. I suppose it was the top-end of candlewick when it first came out.