The kitsch image of a 1950s housewife has perhaps been overused, but this ‘Too Many Gadgets’ Tea Towel made me smile as we’ve featured several of Talia’s retro kitchen products on this site.
It features an image from Talia’s archive and shows a housewife surrounded by her Talia labour-saving products.
The tea towel costs £10.50 from The Laundry.
This Great British Biscuit tea towel celebrates all that is good about one of our favourite teatime snacks.
It's designed by Jill Tytherleigh and shows some British biscuit classics, such as the jammy dodger, fig roll, malted milk and digestive. Charmingly illustrated, it's bound to inspire you to reach for that tin.
The tea towel costs £10.
Buy it from Very Nice Things
Long before it became synonymous with junk emails, spam was beloved of Monty Python fans and remembered perhaps a little less fondly by people forced to eat it during wartime rationing.
Gillian Kyle has chosen to celebrate this retro meat product in her Spam Tea Towel. The 100% cotton tea towel features a line drawing in brown of the tinned meat. The design, thankfully, is much more appealing than a tin of the dubious meat product itself.
It costs £7.50 from To Dry For.
It's always good to learn a new skill, so why not get to grips with phrenology whilst doing the washing up?
This 100% cotton tea towel from Corbridge based shop RE depicts a phrenology chart, used in the Victorian era as a way to predict a person's character traits based on the size and shape of their head. According to the wisdom of the day, different lumps and bumps related to an individual's personality and talents and could even be used to predict their potential success in life.
Of course the theory was later proven to have no scientifc basis but the busts and charts of the day are fascinating curios from a different age.
The tea towel costs £5 here.
Another bright tea towel to brighten up your kitchen, this Kuppila tea towel is designed by Polkka Jam.
Polkka Jam is the work of a Finnish duo and this design is typical of their work. It features patterned and colourful kitchenware with more than a little touch of retro style. Some of their other designs feature stacked tea cups and even a decorative tea urn. In fact, you're bound to find something that's just your cup of tea.
The tea towel costs 16.50 Euros.
Buy it from Finnish Design Shop
We introduced you to 1940s-inspired retro emporium Utility last year. This Cook's Conversion Table is a new addition to their charming tea towel collection.
As practical as it is stylish, the Cook's Conversion Table tea towel is invaluable to any cook braving the confusing world of weight & volume conversions. It's pretty nifty for drying your dishes too. Like all of their tea towels, it's handmade and printed in their Brighton studio on high quality cotton and is available in either plain white or striped.
The Cook's Conversion Table tea towel is £9.50 from Utility in store or by mail order. See the website for more details.
