Help re-make a resin-stiffened tablecloth "table"

Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our Joel needs your help to re-make this lovely table-less table created from a crocheted tablecloth stiffened with resin:


This low-slung table, created from a woven tablecloth petrified with sort of resin, may not be a retail product, but it could always get work as a set piece in an Aqua Net commercial.

If I were to try to build one, what sort of resin should I use?

Tablecloth sans table as table,

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