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1920s textile design tea towels from the Courtauld Gallery

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Twenties tea towel

This Courtauld Gallery tea towel, based on a 1920s textile design, is possibly too beautiful to use on your dishes.

It's based on a textile design from the 1925 Exposition des Arts Decoratifs – the World's Fair that gave us the term 'Art Deco' – and reflects some of the dynamism you'd associate with that movement.The Courtauld have also produced a Tropical Birds design tea towel dating from the same period which is equally striking. 

Something of a bargain too at £5. Frame them and get some instant art for your walls. 

Buy them from Culturelabel

Categories / Homeware

1950s fabric inspired mugs from Prey

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Prey fabric mug

Fan of vintage textile design? Take a look at these 1950 fabric design mugs from Prey.

Bath-based Prey have reproduced charming vintage designs onto mugs – such as the Houses design shown – creating lovely pieces in their own right. The mugs are available featuring two further colourful prints, entitled Fruit Bowls and Soda Siphon.

The same designs have also been reproduced on storage tins. Sadly these are currently out-of-stock, though you can enter your email address on the website to be notified when they're back on sale. 

The mugs cost £9.95 each. 

See them online

Categories / Design and Interiors

Körsbärsträdgården fabric by Marianne Westman reissued by Almedahls

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This Körsbärsträdgården fabric is another Marianne Westman design dug out from the archives by Almedahls.

Although the name doesn't exactly trip off the tongue (unless you are fluent in Swedish), the name translates as cherry orchard, perhaps obvious from the charming cherries and cherry blossom visible in the design. 

It's been reissued alongside Picknick to coincide with Westman's 80th birthday and still looks pretty and fresh today. The design is printed onto a 50% linen and 50% cotton mix. 

The fabric costs £29 a metre. 

Buy it from Hus and Hem

Categories / Kids

Jane Foster Tilda doll kit

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Jane Foster Tilda

Jane Foster's designs are no strangers on this site. So it's no surprise that when she designs something as simple as this Tilda doll kit, she injects a bit of retro style into that too. 

Like the Clothkitty doll of old, it's a flat design printed onto linen cotton you then sew together and stuff yourself. Less stuffy than your average doll though – this design with her long hair and stripy Breton dress is a bit Jane Birkin-esque or, at the very least, the doll looks like she dresses with some 60s style.

The doll kit costs £20. 

Buy them from the Jane Foster website

Categories / Art and Photography

Jonny Hannah’s Loomings, Coffin and Scrimshaw print set

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Do you remember The Captain's Pattern fabric Jonny Hannah designed for St Jude's Gallery and we featured a little while back? Well, the artist has used that fabric's retro, seafaring imagery for his Loomings, Coffin and Scrimshaw print set. 

Each set includes 16 prints, each reproducing a different vignette used for the fabric, such as the tattoo-style love heart shown above. Also contained in each set is an introduction by the artist. Limited to 50 editions, if you like the nautical flavour of these prints better pick one up quickly.

A set costs £75. 

Buy it from St Jude's Prints

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Pretty City red telephone box doorstop

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Doorstop

It’s fairly easy to find a nice fabric doorstop – we’ve featured more than a few on this site. The idea is given a fun twist with this doorstop by Pretty City which comes in the iconic shape of a red telephone box. 

Though instantly recognisable as a phone box, it’s been given something of a make-over. The 10cm high doorstop is covered in appliqued and embroidered flowers and scrolls as well as the words ‘hello’ and ‘goodbye’ sewn onto either side of the doorstop. The stuffing also makes it a touch more wonky than your average phone box too, that’s unless vandals have been at it again of course. 

A fun purchase, this doorstop costs £16.99.

Buy it from Dollydagger