When Michele and Yvette, two moms who met at a PTO meeting in Massachusetts, set out to revive an old-school fabric with modern designs, MY Oilcloth was born. (Get it? M+Y=MY) Oilcloth is cotton ...

A century ago, oilcloth was a staple in middle-class kitchens. This durable, easy-to-clean and inexpensive fabric was a boon for homemakers, who used it to make tablecloths, drawer liners and ...

Monica Burton is the former deputy editor of Eater.com where she covered restaurants and food culture from 2017 to 2025. So much of restaurant design doesn’t make sense outside of restaurants: No one ...

Wang Yansong checks the cover of oilcloth umbrellas at Guomin Oilcloth Umbrella Plant in Jingxian County, east China's Anhui Province, Nov. 7, 2019. (Xinhua/Huang Bohan) It takes about a week to make ...

Workers dry oilcloth umbrellas, with their covers being brushed with tung oil at the Guoming Oilcloth Umbrella Factory in Jing county, Anhui province. Photo by Chen Yehua/Xinhua By the early 1990s, ...

Zheng Guomin, head of Guomin Oilcloth Umbrella Plant, makes the handle for an oilcloth umbrellas at the plant in Jingxian County, east China's Anhui Province, Nov. 7, 2019. The umbrella, made of oiled ...

The wipe-clean place mats and tablecloths from the Los Angeles company Atelier Saucier use surplus material from fashion houses. By Florence Fabricant Oilcloth, the popular wipe-clean table covering ...

A worker makes ribs for an oilcloth umbrella in Gufeng Village of Jingxian County, east China's Anhui Province, Nov. 13, 2024. The umbrella, made of oiled cloth and bamboo frame, is a traditional ...

It is a venerable form of foul-weather gear. I remember hearing my ancient auntie from New Bedford, Massachusetts, the whaling port, talk about oilskins, meaning seamen’s foul-weather gear. They are ...

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Zheng Guoming makes a bamboo frame for an oilcloth umbrella at the factory. Photo by Chen Yehua/Xinhua Wearing a brightly colored oilcloth apron, 50-year-old Zheng Guoming carefully brushes tung oil ...