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The Tea Towel

Perspectives on an Everyday Item

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“Can you help me and dry the dishes?” The tea towel is an integral part of everyday life, even in the age of the dishwasher.

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Title Details
Edited by Vera Roggli, Eva Wolf, Basil Linder
Expected release date 10.2025
Paperback
256 pages, 90 color illustrations
11.5 x 18.5 cm
ISBN 978-3-03942-281-4
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The dishwasher has robbed the good old kitchen towel of some of its practical significance. Nevertheless, it remains present in many households, hand-woven or industrially produced, lint-free or absorbent, dirty or clean, inherited or replaceable. In some kitchens, special attention is also required, as there is one for the hands and one for the dishes.

For a long time, specially made kitchen towels were a luxury and reserved for the upper classes. Industrial mass production has changed this, and today two developments can be observed: while kitchen towels are displayed as design objects in museum stores and craft stores, they are also standardized cheap goods.

In The Tea Towel: Perspectives on an Everyday Item, 13 authors, artists, and designers enter into a dialogue with the object and examine it from a literary, journalistic, artistic, technical, and sociopolitical perspective. The contributions of very different tones complement each other and create new references. In text and images, the book encourages a rediscovery of the everyday kitchen towel as a sensual object with which many socially relevant topics are associated.

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