Famous English examples of embroidered table carpets are the Bradford table carpet and the Tobit table carpet.
See also the Needles entries on table cloth and table runner.
V&A online catalogue (retrieved 22 June 2016).
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Table Carpet
Bradford table carpet. Linen canvas, embroidered with silk thread in tent stitch, England, early 17th century.
Copyright Victoria and Albert Museum, London, acc. no. T.134-1928.
A table carpet may be a thick, decorative textile placed over a table. Although called a carpet, it needs neither to be made with a pile nor placed on the floor. Such ‘carpets’ were removed or covered with a linen cloth when the table was in use. This type of table covering was popular in Europe from at least the fifteenth century onwards.
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