Enhance Southwest Decor with Southwestern Placemats

Southwest placemats and a meal with friends and family is one of the best ways to relax and enjoy yourselves. It's a peaceful time that builds rapport and causes contentment. You can bring a touch of southwestern flair and hospitality to your dinner table as well as the rest of your home by choosing just the right accessories. A set of southwest placemats is an excellent way to do exactly that. 

Bring a cowboy or Native American theme to your table with appropriately decorated place mats and the chili and chicken fajitas will taste even better. There are several different kinds of placemats available to match your home decorating needs. 

You can choose the precise set of place mats that will complete your southwestern dining area with the different themes and materials available. From the realistic to the stylized, from the light and airy to the heavy duty, there is a southwestern placemat for every occasion and every dining room or kitchen table. For natural lightness and hygiene, some placemats are made of 100% cotton. Thanks to the toughness of the natural fibers, these thin placemats are long lasting and offer a huge range of different patterns. 

Rather than being woven, the decoration of cotton placemats is usually stenciled. There are countless southwestern images to bring to mind, the prairie, the corral, and the Native American wigwam to your home. Many of these southwest placemats have decorative geometric borders similar to Navajo and Anasazi cloths, and contain various images such as Native American themes, cowboy boots and hats, rodeo images, running horses, animals such as roadrunners, buffalo, and coyotes, and even depictions of whole pueblo towns. 

The only limit to the images that can be used is the imagination of the creators since the motifs are printed onto the placemat. For even greater toughness, other placemats make use of a mix of cotton and nylon. These would be ideal if you are expecting to be serving a rowdy group of cowpokes at your dinner table. The decoration on these placemats is usually printed or stenciled as well, and share patterns that vary as those found on their cotton kindred. Including everything from saguaros and Gila monsters to proud Native Americans, there is sure to be a placemat that pleases you. 

Woven southwestern wool placemats which are thicker and softer have been made available. You may desire something that is a little more formal than the others and wool placemats will definitely meet the need to complete your southwestern style dinner spread. They offer beautiful designs and the colors in them are very long lasting. There are many themes and almost all feature the popular geometric style borders. These vivid home accessories help to make your decor more complete and remind you of this distinctive American region whenever you sit down to eat a meal. 

See our southwest placemats gallery here.