tray cloth

It spilled over the embroidered traycloth like weak lemon tea, and made a rim round Gary's hair.

Wendy had taken up some sewing, a handkerchief or possibly a traycloth into which she was inserting tiny stitches, her little finger crooked in the way it used to be said was vulgar to hold a teacup.

In this world of clean fast-running water, of inimitable oaks and meadows which made the Bayeux tapestry look like a traycloth, there was no place for somersaulted cars and carnage and broken bodies lying on the wet and bloody tarmac.

She hadn't meant to buy anything, but the vendors looked so eager that she had purchased postcards, several rush mats and an embroidered traycloth before the Professor rejoined her, paid for them, bade her buy no more and walked her briskly on board.