I am happy it was brought up, as I wanted to start a dresden plate and have been looking for material to put the plates on, not white, but light tan or off white. Haven't found any and now I will look at WM sheets as if used on our bed with the dogs, will be washed alot (why I don't want white, but off white) and use that for backgound for plates, maybe even a used older sheet of mom's for backing. Thanks, and no would should be offended echobluff, it is always good to get a large number of opions and ideas and use what we like and let others go. It would be a dull world if we all thought the same.