oilcloth

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Oilcloth, the popular wipe-clean table covering from long before the designer Sandy Chilewich started weaving her place mats, is becoming popular again.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2022

Oilcloth covered the boards and hung clear to the floor on either side.

From Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]

Linoleum or Oilcloth That is Cracked.—Linoleum that is badly cracked may be improved by a filler made of ochre and boiled flour paste.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson

Oilcloth had been known in England a century previously.

From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Earle, Alice Morse