tea cloth

Covering each one is a dainty lace or linen doily, or an embroidered tea-cloth.

At card parties, large and small, serve on the card tables, using a small tea cloth on each table.

She pushed the papers away from one end of the table and covered it with a dainty tea-cloth.

Blue Bonnet came out of the house with a tea-cloth, followed by Knight and Delia with the chairs.

A tea cloth can be colored, but the conventional one is of white linen, with little or much white needlework or lace, or both.