Although mistress of the narrative and descriptive tea towel, Pat was first and foremost a textile designer and it was in the sphere of pure pattern that she was at her very best.
While polite guides may point out the Gainsborough and the Lawrence, the ormolu and the satinwood, it is invariably the kitchen that attracts the crowds.
‘Hardwick Hall more glass than wall’ is a jewel in the Trusts crown, transferred from the glittering coronet of the Duke of Devonshire in lieu of death duties in 1960.
Pat was most excited to work on this design. Quarry Bank Mill is a restored eighteenth-century cotton-weaving factory in Cheshire. The design was the brainchild of Martin Sekers…
As a professional digital printed tea towel supplier, BLANC Tea Towel provides customers with the entire process of producing customized tea towels and dividing them into 8 steps.
Australia is located between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean, surrounded by the sea, and is the only country whose land covers an entire continent.
1989 marked the tercentenary of the ‘Glorious Revolution7. This was the phrase coined for the arrival of William of Orange as the husband of Queen Mary and King of England…
There are two central fabric printing and dyeing methods: one is traditional paint printing, and the other is reactive printing instead of paint printing…
Tea towels are ephemeral, even throwaway. Their most everyday of purposes might seem to rob them of any potential dignity. Frayed and holey, hanging on the rail of the Aga or revisited in a pile of ironing…
Pat designed over 300 tea towels for the Trust. This book is a record of that body of work, containing a selection of the designs that have given so much pleasure both to the members of the Trust and to their designer.