Wednesday, 5 August 2015

Tea Towels III

Continuing my occasional series of tea towels, here is the third installment with some of the tea towels we have bought on holiday or been given.  As E's mother in Scotland had a great collection of tea towels, it is fitting that many of our tea towels are from Scotland.

The Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, 2011

Adelaide

Downton Abbey (a freebie with a DVD we bought)

Marks and Spencer tea towel

New Zealand

50th anniversary of the Australian Breastfeeding Association 
(previously the Nursing Mothers Association of Australia), 2014

Rosslyn Chapel, Scotland (featured in The DaVinci Code)

A Scottish tea towel
This is how they say "Keep Calm" in Scotland!

Orange, NSW

Love the design on this Scottish tea towel

Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee 2012

The Willow Tea Rooms (designed by Charles Rennie Macintosh), 
Glasgow, Scotland

Yet another Scottish tea towel
I love the architectural drawings of all those beautiful Edinburgh buildings

To see more, go to my first and second post on my tea towels.
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  1. The VegHog5 August 2015 at 17:19

    I love this post as a keen tea towel collector myself! I mainly have animal motifs on mine. Thank you for sharing your great collection!

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    1. Johanna GGG11 August 2015 at 09:58

      Thanks Veg Hog - I have a few animal tea towels but most of ours are souvenir ones

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  2. Nupur5 August 2015 at 22:08

    I love this SO much- I love tea towels but don't have much of a collection yet. I hang mine as curtains in the kitchen (with cafe clips).

    The Scottish one is my favorite. Keep Yer Heid- now that's a good mantra :)

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    1. Johanna GGG11 August 2015 at 09:59

      Thanks Nupur - I once gave my dad tea towels upon returning from some travels and he hung them on the wall in his study - using them as kitchen curtains sounds like a great way to enjoy the pretty ones

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  3. Cate Lawrence6 August 2015 at 00:00

    aww so cool, i used to make curtains out of teatowels for my kitchen in Australia

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    1. Johanna GGG11 August 2015 at 09:59

      Thanks Cate - tea towel curtains would make the kitchen feel cosy and homely

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  4. Kari6 August 2015 at 03:27

    Gosh, that is a good collection! My Mum has about 20 tea towels with different designs relating to Rye in East Sussex :P She could take inspiration from your varied assortment!

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    1. Johanna GGG11 August 2015 at 10:00

      Thanks Kari - wow I love the specialised nature of your mum's tea towel collection :-)

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  5. Veganopoulous6 August 2015 at 11:00

    beautiful! I love the thistle towel. Isn't it funny, growing up us youngsters were all EWWW TEA TOWEL PRESENTS BORRRRRING and now I appreciate them! I have some of my grandmother's old towels, though after reading about your tea towels I'm inspired to get my nice towels out and start a collection. I have a few vintage linen towels and hand embroidered but if I hang the 'good towels' on the oven for decoration I just know someone with dirty greasy fingers will use them to mop up blueberry juice or something awfully staining!

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    1. Johanna GGG11 August 2015 at 10:02

      Thanks Faye - I was like that about tea towels but now I appreciate them so much more. I do have a few that are out of sight but most just get used - E's mum was so into her tea towels and used them all and told me that she had a beatles tea towel that just wore out - part of me was sad not to see it and part of me thought it was nice she enjoyed it. Your vintage ones sound like something I might be scared to put out but they sound like great blog props

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  6. Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella6 August 2015 at 14:01

    My teatowels are rather boring in comparison to your Johanna!

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    1. Johanna GGG11 August 2015 at 10:03

      Thanks Lorraine - you should check out some of the tea towels on your travels (though I have learnt that not every country sells souvenir tea towels because I had to buy one for my mother in law's collection on my travels and sometimes it was very difficult to find any)

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  7. Cakelaw10 August 2015 at 21:06

    I love the Downton Abbey tea towel and the Willow tearooms tea towel. I have also been to the Willow tea rooms and I have a tin with that design on it that used to contain tea.

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    1. Johanna GGG11 August 2015 at 10:04

      Thanks Cakelaw - I actually insisted that E bought the Downton Abbey DVD with the tea towel. I went to the willow tea rooms years ago and was very impressed - would love to get back there as I love rennie macintosh's designs

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  8. Unknown25 August 2015 at 13:41

    Wow - what a beautiful and completely unique collection! My tea towels are so boring ;p

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  9. Mae Travels19 June 2016 at 20:57

    Wonderful post -- I also checked your prior tea-towel posts. Your collection looks great. I never thought of taking photos and making a post: great idea!

    My English friend sends me tea towels almost every year. When I see them at a tourist site, I send her one as well. I use them all the time and so of course my favorites are wearing out, just like your mum.

    best... mae at maefood.blogspot.com

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    1. Johanna GGG20 June 2016 at 23:07

      Thanks Mae - I had thought that perhaps tea towels weren't so big in the USA so I was surprised to find a San Fransisco one in my mother in law's collection - I suspect we bought it for her when we were in San Fran about 15 years ago but am not sure

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