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This tea towel is infected by a ‘Design Virus’. Designed by Pieke Bergmans (of Crystal Virus fame) for the Textile Museum, her aim is to create “personalized mass production” where irregularities are included rather than discarded.

Tea towel Error 3 is shown above, and there’s a total of 6 Tea towel Errors in red or blue to choose from on Wannekes.com.

The season’s festivities are upon us and with Thanksgiving just around the corner you might want to check out these tea towels. 100% natural eco cotton and 95% guaranteed to be the best host/hostess give ever. The reindeer one (below) is my favorite.

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I’ve stated my love for tea towels before, and this triangle drawing has me itching to ‘add to cart’. Also, check out the Triangle Pillow ($45) with the same design on natural linen.

Original drawing of triangles in an indigo blue ink on 55% hemp and 45% organic cotton fabric.

Just in case you need a little scholastic inspiration in the kitchen… fyi, this retail site is in german, but you can go to google translate for guidance when purchasing.

Design: I Saw It First
100% cotton.
48 x H 76 cm

If you’re a fan of typography, you might recognize this sans-serif typeface based on Theo van Doesburg’s orignal designs for an alphabet in 1919. Isn’t it strange how something almost designed a century ago still feels current?

100% Cotton.
Dimensions 72x45cm

Sure! Go ahead and eat with your hands. You’ll look totally civilized as long as you have these French-made, waffle-weave, spoon-and-fork cotton towels nearby. They’re a little pricey at $38 each, but they’re beautifully crisp, refreshingly white, and good at soaking up spills.

27.5 x 19.75 inches

Fork available here.

Lovely useful dish towel from Bailey Doesn’t Bark, via swissmiss. (See also from them the Wall Plates posted last year.)

white flour sack, black design.
Care: Warm/Cold. Tumble dry.
{Hand}Made in USA.
Design: Bailey Doesn’t Bark

The whimsical nature of Donna Wilson’s designs never cease to enthrall. Luckily, if you don’t have room for pillows or poofs, there are tea towels.

Approx. 48 x 80cm.

£16.50, Buy it here.

Here’s a simple enough message for those that enter your kitchen. There’s also another dishtowel with a less subtle message should you need it. (I love how dishtowels are becoming popular again.)

A fabulous giant 20 inches wide x 28 inches tall, all cotton dish towel, hand-woven in India by Fabindia and screenprinted with water-based, non-toxic inks.

$9.99, Buy it here.

Excellent, a tea towel that looks like notepaper.

A high quality Tea Towel designed to look like a sheet of lined notepaper.
Designed by super-creative London studio I Saw It First.

£10.00, Buy it here.

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Tea towels are such an inexpensive way freshen up your kitchen…and with all the designs to choose from, it’s hard to pick just one.

These fashionable, functional and fabulous tea towels, printed on 100% cotton, will without a doubt turn doing the dishes into a pleasure. Packaged in cardboard envelopes, they make the perfect present.

100% organic cotton.
19.7 x 27.6 (inches)

$19.00, Buy it here.

A few people have emailed us about Third Drawer Down®, and pretty much the only reason there hasn’t been a post until now is because it’s difficult to choose just one to highlight. They have made common objects such as aprons, tea towels and kercheifs into usable art and I know there’s quite a few I would frame. Also, keep in mind these would be excellent gifts for anyone who has a kitchen (which is almost everyone).

“By placing art into the most domestic of circumstances, Third Drawer Down® products promote an ongoing dialogue between art and everyday life, whilst promoting the work of International Artists and Designers.”

Shown above (left):
A Piece of Tea (2005),
Frederique Daubal (FRA)
Screenprint and Embroidery on 100% Linen Tea Towel
70cm x 50cm,
Edition: 1000
about $36.00 plus postage

Shown (right):
Portrait of a History of Modern Art as a Sanitary System (1993),
Margaret Morgan (US)
Screenprint on 100% Linen
50cm x 70cm,