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.
Just as the programme serves as souvenir of a play, a lasting memory of the visit to the theatre, so, for many years, the tea towel was a vital part of a visit to a National Trust property…
Pat Albeck, who died in September 2017, was a prolific and well-known textile and homewear designer. Pat started work in the 1950s and continued working throughout her life…
Our new website www.blancteatowel.com has been updated and launched. I hope our new website can provide you with better customized digital printing services…
Dear friends, Tomorrow is the Chinese New Year, and the Blanc tea towel is here to wish you and your family a happy new year and a happy family. Thank you for your attention and support to Brown tea towels in 2020.
It is a great honor for the BLANC Tea Towel to cooperate with the BBC Children in Need project. We have produced a digital printing tea towel for the BBC Children in Need project. ..
‘An old vintage dress fabric inspired my first ironing-board cover-the idea proved so popular that many more vintage-Style items, ranging from tablecloths and seat cushions to tea towels, followed.’
‘The best shabby chic is not created but an expression of how you are by nature. Natural grace and style helps.’ MIN HOGG. FOUNDING EDITOR OF THE WORLD OF INTERIORS MAGAZINE, 1981 INCREASINGLY known as the ‘ designer decade’
‘There was a move towards graphic design and illustration; it was very much part of the times-everyone was designing tea towels. ’ IAN LOGAN, GRAPHIC DESIGNER SEVERAL disparate threads informed the design aesthetic of the 1970s. These shared a commonality by being rooted in the past…
‘Since teacloths are a fairly cheap and expendable product, the design of them can be experimental. When paying a small amount of money for something that is not going to have a very long life, people are prepared to take a risk and buy exciting designs.’ — PAT ALBECK, TEXTILE DESIGNER ALTHOUGH