Oilcloth

Oilcloth is cloth made waterproof by coating, traditionally close-woven cotton or linen sealed with boiled linseed oil, later with vinyl. Before rubberized and plastic fabrics, it was the waterproof of the world: sailors' foul-weather gear, floorcloths that prefigured linoleum, satchels, and above all the wipe-clean kitchen tablecloth, printed in cheerful checks and florals that became its visual signature. The render shows that classic printed check on a glazed ground; the defining feature is the seal, not the weave beneath.