Tablecloths

Cut and voided silk velvet

A table cloth is a cloth used to cover a table. While many table cloths are meant to protect the table from being stained or scratched, they may also be used purely for decorative purposes, either hanging near two ends vertically over two parallel edges of the table, or hang mostly vertical along all four edges of the table, with bunched folds hanging at the four corners of the table.
A popular "magic trick" involved pulling a loaded tablecloth away from a table but leaving the plates behind.