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Posts tagged “tea towel”

Color In the Kitchen: Store Tea Towels in a Basket

We like this simple storage idea from a recent house tour: store your tea towels out in the kitchen, rolled up in a wire basket. We love pretty, colorful tea towels, but since we can't have them all o...

Functional Design: Where Do You Hang the Kitchen Towel?

Perhaps the most important non-cooking tool in the kitchen is the kitchen towel. Our kitchen towels see hard use: we lift hot pans with them, wipe up spills, wipe our hands, dust the table, and more. ...

Wrap Your Gifts in a Dishtowel, Furoshiki-Style
Un-Gift Guide 2008

Furoshiki are Japanese cloths that are used to wrap gifts and other items such as bento boxes. They can be used as book bags, grocery bags or to wrap any small items for transportation. They’re al...

Gift Idea: 10 Favorite Tea Towels

We've been noticing a lot of fresh, pretty tea towels by independent designers. They're an inexpensive and often colorful way to spruce up your kitchen. We have started thinking of them as calling car...

Do the Dishes: Tea Towel from Showpony

The sun may be shining; the weather may be beautiful; it may be picnic weather - but we still need to do the dishes! We're loving this tea towel......