Why tea towels?
Why not tea towels? They are amazing! We both love design and tea towels are a wonderful way to bring colour and images into your kitchen, without having to fork out a fortune on artwork. They also make amazing presents as they are quirky, bright and cheerful, practical and easy to post. Did you both have a shared interest in tea towels? Yes – although Dave always seems to be the one who ends up using them the most (Sally always has something important to sort out whenever the washing up needs doing). Why have tea towels always been so bad in this country? It’s not strictly true that tea towels have always been so poor in this country. There have been some wonderful textile designers such as Lucienne Day and Pat Albeck, whose previous work from the fifties is still inspirational today. One problem is perhaps that a lot of companies use tea towels as commercial marketing incentives. There is nothing wrong with this, although design is often second place to brand promotion — which is a s
