BLANC Tea Towel Blog

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PAT’S TEA TOWELS chapter 4

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…

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PAT’S TEA TOWELS chapter 3

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…

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PAT’S TEA TOWELS chapter 2

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.

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Nolan

PAT’S TEA TOWELS

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…

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2021 Happy Chinese New Year

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.

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Nolan

The Art of The Tea Towels – THE 1980s

‘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’

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