How Do You Take Care Of Fine China?
Taking care of your china will assure that you can have an elegant table that welcomes family and guests alike for many years. China is usually damaged when it isn’t handled, cleaned or stored properly. Here are all the facts you need to keep your best dishes like new. China needs to be well protected while you aren’t using it. If plates are stored on top of one another, they can become scratched easily just moving them in and out of a china cabinet. Put a layer of felt or flannel fabric cut to just under the size of the plate between each one. This also works for salad plates and saucers. Plates stored in a plate rack inside the cabinet should have a little lip placed in front of the rack as one good bump to the cabinet can knock them all over. If it won’t show, glue down a tiny piece of molding or furring just in front of the indentation. If the plate rack is visible, try those tiny, clear plastic adhesive discs that you can buy to protect your tabletops from scratches by your knick-
