A cheap but decorative way to add the vintage touch to your kitchen is through vintage kitchen towels. Collectors are currently obsessed with these varied and interesting towels, which can be used even outside the kitchen. There are many names for the vintage kitchen towels, but they all add the same interest and charm to your home. Not only are they nice pieces of décor, but they also bring back great memories and are great conversations starters.
Antique kitchen towels are quite the rage these days among collectors of vintage Americana. These towels are great fun to collect because of their bright colors, cheerful patterns, interesting textures, and even creative extras like storybooks rhymes. The older towels have been carefully hand printed on various fabrics. The towels can even be used outside the kitchen as simple decorations: a runner on a bureau, a valance over a window, or even a drape over a bedpost.
Regardless of where you use your newly found vintage kitchen towel, or what you call it, they are certainly charming items. They are known in various places as tea towels, utility towels, bar towels, and hand towels – but all names refer to a vintage kitchen towel of some size or shape. Because they were often hand painted, these towels are like small art canvasses. Different companies were known for different designs: Wilendur, Startex, and Martex made fruit and floral designs; Broderie, Bucilla, and JS&J made whimsical and creative designs. Many towels are created by unknown masters, but some towels have the signatures of their makers.
These vintage towels are sure to bring back floods of memories to anyone so fortunate as to have grown up with such towels. They remind many people of sitting in their grandmother’s or mother’s kitchen, watching them make the family meal. The reminder of a simpler time and life is one which is greatly enjoyed by many, and a collection of vintage towels will be not only useful, but also serve as a good conversation piece.