All that exists about tea towels, including a short history lesson7044159

I can not turn down a brilliant tea towel  and I'm certain there is more people who have the same feelings. I have been known to get tea towels and leave them in their original packaging largely because I cannot bear to dirty them up.

Below is a small tea towel history....

History

The name "tea towel" originates from England during the beginning of the 19th century. The tea towel was the linen preferred for the ladies of Victorian England. They normally personally chose tea towels when looking after their crockery to avoid anything being broken by a careless attendant.

Function

The tea towel's very absorbent, lint-free and smooth elements fascinated ladies needing the right towel to intensely wipe up their fine china and serving pieces without spoiling or leaving lint behind. The linen tea towels are manufactured from also provides a workable background to be improved with embroidery. The housewives of this time usually embroidered their own exclusive tea towels which were used at meal time to protect food or tend to any spills.

Materials

Initial tea towels were constructed of linen, an organic fiber from the flax or linseed plants. Improvement in producing fabrics alternated the materials used to make tea towels using less high-priced threads, like cotton, that are adopted in present day dish towels.

Types

The utility tea towel has been demoted to the cleaning shelf as a everyday dish cloth by its fancy sibling, the decorative tea towel. The days of hand-embroidering tea towels are also largely in the past, substituted by printing on the fabric to make travel souvenirs featuring pastoral scenes, calendars, English monarchs and plenty more. For stunning tea towels visit my site