We have had Labrador tea towels and 44, Scotland Street ones, and now it's the turn of a pretty spring-like design from the excellent literary periodical Slightly Foxed - you can buy them here.
It's true what Slightly Foxed say about tea towels - they tend to the attractive but fairly feeble or the practical but utilitarian. I have a good mixture in my kitchen drawer at the moment, but some (from what we call the shop of doom), although nice enough lack body and are always falling off the rail. This one looks more substantial.
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This post is filed in the category 'textiles', and there you will find references to the exquisite, expensive, unique and handmade, or as here the simpler and more workaday. That's a small illustration of the range and variety of things to which all of us typically respond, I suppose, subjects or objects which take our attention, spark aspiration or feed the imagination. Those things which catch us may be grand or plain, useful or beautiful, personal or universal, inconsequential or of much greater moment, and so while I may be talking about tea towels today, my thoughts - and no doubt yours - are elsewhere.
Indeed. Coincidentally, I was reading an old edition of Slightly Foxed in the bath last night. I cancelled my subscription sometime ago but looking at their web site it's made me reconsider.....
Love your name for the Swedish store!
Posted by: Claire | 15 December 2012 at 04:25 PM
we've taken Slightly Foxed right from the first issue, and although I don't always have time to read it (or all of it), Mr. C. usually does, and it's good to have it to refer back to.
The shop of doom was so named many years ago because of a shopping experience so dire I vowed never to return - Mary Portas would have had a field day!
Posted by: Cornflower | 16 December 2012 at 10:53 AM