percale vs cloth

percale and cloth both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
percale	Yes	No	No	No
cloth	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cloth is a hypernym of percale; that is, cloth is a word with a broader meaning than percale:

percale: a fine closely woven cotton fabric
cloth: artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

Other hypernyms of percale include fabric, material, textile.

percale (noun)	cloth (noun)
a fine closely woven cotton fabric	artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers