"Four Elements" Tablecloth

Impress your guests with this exciting design featuring authentic alchemical art from the Middle ages! 
Chimeras, angels, and satyrs dance in the skies and scatter the elements out into the world, because the Four Elements were believed to be energy forces essential to life on Earth.

Maintaining a balance between the elements was also considered necessary to ensure the well-being of body and mind, in fact all medicine before modern times was based on the Doctrine of the Four Humours: blood (air), mucous (water), black bile (earth), and yellow bile (fire).
Health was associated with the harmonious distribution of the four humours, while illness was the result of the dominance of a fluid or an element. For this reason, therapy took place by emptying the surplus fluid (“materia pecans” = guilty matter).

The Doctrine of the Four Humours was also applied to emotions. The wrong mixing of humours was deemed to be the cause of the four temperaments: melancholia (earth; melanos = black, chole = bile), sanguine type (air; sanguis = blood), phlegmatic person (water; phlegma = steam), choleric type (fire; chole = bile). This is why still to this day, we associate anger with fire.
This design will surely be an interesting topic of conversation with your guests!

This 100% cotton tablecloth is durable and machine washable, and well resists fading. The square version (58x58 in) fits square or round tables, while for rectangular tables choose the rectangular version (58x102 in).

Add the matching "Four Elements" Cloth Napkins for a complete table-make-over (see Related Products below).

Features:

- 100% white Cotton
- Machine washable without fading
- Finished hem edging
- Available in two sizes: Square (58x58 in =147x147 cm), and Rectangular (58x102 in =147x259 cm)

Production and Shipping:

- Printed, sewn, and shipped from the USA.
- This product is made-to-order, consistently with our environmental pledge.
- Average production and fulfillment time is 3 business days.