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Retro childhood poem tea towel

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Childhood-poem-tea-towel

If your childhood memories date to slightly further back than the characters featured in the Saturday Mornings in the 80s paper cut, this retro childhood poem tea towel may be more to your taste.

Drawing on memories of the 1970s, it shows a poem which waxes lyrical about some of the childhood delights from that decade: pogo sticks and space hoppers, black jacks and fruit salad sweets, the Beano and Jackie magazines and so on. The nostalgia fest is topped off with an image of the 70s favourite bike – the chopper.

This trip down memory lane costs just £6. 

Buy it from Rockett St George

Categories / Homeware

Michelle Mason London Calling tea towel

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London calling tea towel

Like the Dupenny wallpapers and cushions, here's another design that's appearing in various guises, now in the form of the London Calling tea towel designed by Michelle Mason.

If you liked the London-based cushions we featured a couple of weeks back but couldn't justify the £45 price tag, the London Calling design is also available on a tea towel. This version of the design costs much less but has got the same 1950s feel and naive charm, complete with a bright blue sky. As a London dweller, I can only dream that such a scene faced me on a look out of the window! 

The tea towel costs £10 from To Dry For

Categories / Architecture, Food and Drink, Homeware

The Macbeth pub tea towel from Soulful Toaster

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Macbeth

Soulful Toaster are currently stocking a couple of tea towels featuring London architectural landmarks. One shows the Trellick Tower but as that building comes up so often on this site, how about going a bit further back in time with this tea towel showing the Victorian Macbeth pub in Hoxton, East London? 

It's a fascinating building: originally being built as a gin distillery, using water from its own underground spring. The words 'Hoxton distillery' can still be read at the top of the building, and indeed at the top of this tea towel. It's now a pub and a live music venue (it also gained notoriety for Amy Winehouse's ex-husband attacking its landlord). The design is screen-printed onto white cotton and is made, appropriately enough, in East London. 

This tea towel costs £9.50, as does the design showing the Trellick Tower.

Buy it online

Categories / Design and Interiors, Homeware

‘Why not a canteen job?’ London Transport tea towel

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Canteen tea-towel

If you find yourself chained to the kitchen in a bid to feed your hungry family, this London Transport tea towel will certainly give you food for thought. The tea towel shows an advert from 1949 which asks 'Why not a canteen job?'. The design is typically of the period and it lists the benefits on offer to canteen workers. The offer of extra pay for Sundays and relief duties will certainly seem appealing if your culinary efforts go unappreciated! 

The tea towel is on sale from Whitbread Wilkinson for £5 who also reproduce the same design on an apron for £10.

Buy it online

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Teapots and Jugs tea towel by Skinny laMinx

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Teapot teatowel

We've featured Skinny laMinx before: her borrowed spoons textile had a distinctive 50s feel about it. Her new Teapots and Jugs tea towel has a similar look, partly because it is based on illustrations of all the vintage teapots and jugs she owns! Prepare to be envious of her attractive looking collection (you can see the original objects on her blog). The patterns and shapes of the ceramics are displayed in outline against panels of block colour. 

The design is screenprinted onto hopsack and is available in grey or dutch orange for $12.50.

Buy them from her Etsy shop

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Lisa Jones’ Town on a tea towel

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Town tea towel

Earlier in the month we featured Lisa Jones' stylish Town print. If you liked that print but the £65 price tag was just slightly beyond your budget, you'll be pleased to hear that exactly the same design is available on a tea towel.

Printed on 100% organic cotton, it's a simple way of introducing some colour and retro influenced design into your kitchen. And, at £10, it's pretty cost effective too. 

Buy it from Hunkydoryhome