Add Your Favorite Recipe to a Tea Towel (2024)

FAQs

How do you copy a recipe onto a tea towel? ›

More recently, cotton has become the preferred fabric of many tea towels of today. Cotton tea towels are incredibly absorbent and cotton which uses a terry-cloth looped weave creates larger fabric loops within the towels to absorb large quantities of water whilst keeping them strong and durable.

A tea towel is made to be large enough to dry dishes and wipe one's hands in the kitchen. While the dictionary definition of a tea towel is “a cloth for drying dishes,” its origin in 18th century England was to help insulate warm tea pots, hence the name “tea towel.”

You can either gently roll up the towel or fold the towel in half and give them a little pat. Line a bowl with a tea towel (pattern facing down), fill up with rolls/bread slices, and then fold the sides of the towel over. It keeps the bread warm and looks cute too. Use a tea towel to wrap up your next gift.

Transcribe your family's favorite cookie recipe onto a cookie jar, engrave grandma's oxtail soup recipe onto an easel (now you don't have to lean over and squint), or hang up the most oft-used family recipe on a sign so that it's always in sight.

We print designs on tea towels by screen printing or Direct to Garment (DTG) printing method. Both screen printing and direct to garment printing have their own benefits and can create customized tea towels of high quality.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a tea towel as "a cloth for drying dishes." Often made of linen, cloth, or a combination of the two, tea towels date back to England in the 18th century, when they were used to insulate tea pots at tea ceremonies (hence the name), dry fine china, and cover baked goods.

In fact, the term 'tea towel' has roots in British culture, a term used to describe the soft pieces of linen that were used in multiple ways: to dry delicate tea sets and glass, or to cover warm tea pots and baskets of baked goods to retain heat.

How long do tea towels last? ›

Tea towels are durable and with the correct care they can last for many years, so it really depends how well you look after them. We like to swap our kitchen linens round from season to season – it's a great way to change your kitchen interior without having to redecorate.

Dishcloths are typically made of cotton or other fibres, such as microfiber, and measure 11" to 13" inches square. Dishcloths used for drying dishes are also known as tea towels. Dishcloths are typically square, and are usually made of cotton or other fibres.

They are both the same size and shape. However there is one difference - technically tea towels are made from linen or cotton cloth and never terry cloth. If a towel is made from terry, then it is a dish towel.

If you don't have a scanner, you can scan at an office store, UPS store, or Walgreens/CVS. There are also scanner apps you can load on your phone, such as Adobe Scan, which make a scan out of a picture. A photo of the recipe will also work.