There is something immediately appealing about these kitchen linens from Small Batch Production. They're not fancy, or have cool patterns or florals; they're understated and elegant, made to be used and washed a hundred times.
Small Batch Production is the handiwork of Claire Tipley, who hand-sews everything available in her Etsy shop, including tea towels, cloth napkins, and aprons. All are made from either 100% linen, organic cotton, and hemp. Faith is already a fan of this cotton-hemp apron, but I'm partial to the tea towels, particularly that citron one!
• 1 Linen Dish Towel in Citron, $22
• 2 Linen Dish Towel in Brown, $22
• 3 Organic Cotton/Hemp Apron, $86
• 4 Linen Dish Towel in Red Check, $22
• 5 Lunch Napkin in Black Linen Stripe, $12
Visit the Website → Small Batch Production
Related: Natural Linen Napkins from Tall Pine Studio
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These look like great towels, but the description confounds me. The post says "This dish towel is 100% linen and hand sewn." There is no way these are actually sewn "by hand." It looks like machine work to me. If by hand they mean someone personally sews it using a machine then all my clothes are "hand sewn" by someone in a factory.
That was bothering me too, ce_do.
They are nice towels, though.
do people really buy tea towels at $22 a piece?! how about a post on great affordable dish towels?
IKEA tea towels $.69, yes. $22 dish towels, nope.
While I would have a difficult time buying these items at this price myself, they are probably an honest reflection of the cost of the cloth and the labor of the worker.
This is the kind of place the rest of us are buying our towels from:
http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/30/news/companies/walmart-bangladesh-factory-fire/index.html
So I wouldn't be too harsh on the person featured.