I use a lot of linen placemats and it is very vexing to want the kind that's on the bottom of the stack. No matter how careful you are, you can easily wrinkle a whole pile of them.

My solution was to design a cabinet with doors that open to reveal a bank of very close together pullout shelves, so each kind is stored in its own stack and I can peel off what I need in a jiff.

Below that I have several deeper (meaning the sides are higher) pullouts which are for napkins. I have some dividers on those to keep those stacks from falling over. As we only use cloth napkins, I need a lot of storage for them.

HTH,

Molly

I've seen them rolled gently and placed in a wine rack

I was going to suggest that you roll them, even if you place them in the drawer. Stack each design, roll, and then stack the rolls. Then you only have to pick up a roll or two to get to the other ones.

Thanks for the suggestions. I was considering the multiple shelves and am glad to hear that that can work. Had not thought of rolling the placemats up. That wouldn't work with the straw mats, but those are easier to dig under anyway.

I have a cabinet which has a rod across it, towards the top. I've wondered if that was for hanging towels or something. I was thinking if you had a cabinet or space, you could put sets together with the skirt clips so they would hang down much like the tablecloths.

Gloria

Mine are in the linen closet, but it sounds like you have a lot more placemats than I do.

If there's room next to the tablecloths, why not hang the placemats too? I'm not sure how many would fit in one clip, but how about a multiple-skirt-hanger?

If you need to keep them in a drawer or on a shelf, can you store sets in large plastic bags - maybe a 2gallon ziploc bag? Even if they can't be closed up, it would keep the stack sorted by pattern and it would be easier to stack 5 bundles of placemats rather than 60 individual placemats.

Here is a link that might be useful: Multiple skirt hanger

Thanks. The plastic bags would help with the oval lacy mats that wouldn't work on a skirt hanger. The two gallon size might be about right.

for years I’ve struggled with my placemats stacked in a drawer in the kitchen. I love the idea of using a skirt hanger. Now my placemats are hanging on a couple of skirt hangers in the closet next to the wooden hangers that hold my table cloths. Thanks for the idea!

Maybe you could get a slim chest of drawers specifically just for all the place mats and table cloths too etc. I keep mine in a sideboard cupboard.