How to avoid Kauffallen and find your way around the jungle of the labels. Oilcloth that kitchen table oilcloth on OMIS has changed over the course of time. Today, there are wax cloth in attractive, modern design. An oilcloth can be foil or a textile fabric coated with PVC. Often, oilcloth comes directly from the roll, the tablecloths are often not lined.
Industrially packaged goods, ugly hard fold edges, which are difficult to remove, are supplied free. I can not imagine that you find prima. Oilcloth is often limited moisture resistant. For even more details, read what Economic Cycles Research Institute says on the issue. Caution is announced when washing, because in the spin cycle, the tablecloth like gets kinks, you can't get out. Hand washing is recommended to exclude any risk. Also reacts oilcloth often sensitive to heat already hot plate can cause problems.
The soft surface is also sensitive to mechanical influence. And last oilcloth usually at least initially emanates an unpleasant chemical smell. My conclusion: wax cloth is usually very inexpensive, has many disadvantages that you should consider before buying. Textile washable tablecloth with a sealed surface also here there are huge differences in quality. It is very lightweight, cheap qualities, which are fickle and 'fuddelig' after washing, these properties are certainly not better, rather poor. On the other hand: hard and heavy fabrics have a crucial disadvantage. Because the sealed materials are solid and heavy, they are unfortunately also the stiffer. This looks very unattractive in the case and just very ' artificial ' from. Also, a coating changes the look and feel of the tablecloth. Some coatings mean that the tablecloth just very like ' from plastic', because it is unnatural and you can hardly see the textile structure. This is the case most often used for coated polyester. As a rule of thumb applies: the more the cotton a wipe tablecloth, the better will come to realize the substance and its structure.