sewing table

a worktable for holding sewing materials, often supplied with a bag or pouch for needlework.

Compare bag table.

Origin of sewing table

First recorded in 1870–75

Down-stage to the right is a window; near it, but protected by a screen, is a large arm-chair near a sewing-table.

Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays |Various
And the sewing-table, ebony inlaid with mother-of-pearl, that stood always by the south window?

Honey-Sweet |Edna Turpin
And it had only one window, too, in which a small armchair stood, and a sewing-table before the chair—so pretty!

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 11 |Friedrich Spielhagen
After she had left David in the big, dark room, she took up some dull-blue linen from her sewing-table.

A Melody in Silver |Keene Abbott

To the right of the gateway, an upright piano; further down the stage, a sewing-table and two easy-chairs.

Plays--First Series |August Strindberg