Estate sale booty: vintage Christmas

One of my favorite things to find at estate sales is vintage Christmas stuff. In fact, I think it's my #1 favorite thing to find, and the past few weeks of estate sales have yielded some goodies!

At the last sale I snapped up this old tulle tablecloth for $2. I have another one like this that I found at a thrift a few years ago. They were handmade of tulle and adorned with sequined appliques, and made to go over a solid-colored base tablecloth of felt.

This one has really pretty jewels and sequins. The big tree is in the middle and there are smaller appliques of bells around the edges, and there's a scalloped green felt border.

I think this one is much larger than my table so it will probably end up on etsy later this year.

Another prize is this handmade felt tree skirt. I've always loved these, but don't find them often while thrifting. This is probably the most elaborate example I've seen yet.

It's gorgeous! An incredible amount of handwork went into sewing all of the beads, jewels and sequins on each ornament.

Each ornament is tied at the top with velvet ribbon and adorned with a pair of glass ornament balls. A few of them are broken, but I think I have some in my stash that I can use as replacements.

Isn't the pink one pretty? Unfortunately, there is quite a bit of damage to this tree skirt. Can you see the big brown blotchy stain up there at the top?

There's one other large stain, near the yellow ornament. I'm not sure if there's anything I can do to get the stains out of the felt. I'm afraid to really wash it in the machine because of the delicate sequins, beads and other trims. Perhaps I could try a gentle soak in the bathtub with some Woolite? Or should I just leave it alone and make sure to use wrapped presents to cover up the stains? I'd love any advice or suggestions! Normally I wouldn't buy something that was irreparably stained but this tree skirt was so elaborate and the price so reasonable I couldn't pass it by!