Flour Sack Towels

Whether you call them “flour sack towels” or “tea towels”, they’ve been around for hundreds of years, gracing the towel racks of kitchens all across the globe with their mix of simple elegance and practical usage. Offering a sense of tradition and visual charm that is often lost in more modern kitchens, flour sack towels present a range of opportunities for kitchens and businesses alike. Most commonly used for drying off dishes and cutlery after they have been washed, tea towels can also be used for other purposes, such as drying one’s hands after washing them in the kitchen.

Although the practical uses of a flour sack towel are finite, the customization options available for flour sack towels are limitless, and this has seen their popularity skyrocket in recent years as more and more interior designers and kitchen enthusiasts are looking for tea towels in various colors, styles, and designs. What’s the point in a brand new marble kitchen if your tea towel doesn’t match?

1. Crafting

Whether it’s for their job or for their hobby, people sure love to do crafts. Hobbyists and professionals who undertake arts and crafts projects are often searching for canvases to work on, and a flour sack towel offers crafts enthusiasts the perfect canvas for their art! Made using thin and versatile linen, tea towels can be easily embroidered or painted and decorated, allowing creative types to make their mark on flour sack towels of all shapes and sizes. Although flour sack towels may not seem like an obvious thing to find in a crafts store, they are at the crossroads of practicality for both kitchens and art studios alike.

2. Screen printing

Screen printing has become very popular in the last few years, with a plethora of online and brick-and-mortar companies using the screen printing process to customize a range of products for their customers. Making great gifts around the holidays or at birthdays, custom screen-printed merchandise can feature a customer’s favorite celebrity, TV show reference, musician, or perhaps just a nice family photo. Although the medium used for screen printing was traditionally limited to t-shirts and bed linen, flour sack towels are now often screen printed upon too, with their thin linen surface making them ideal for the process

3. Embroidery

Flour sack towels are, at their core, very thin pieces of linen. As a result, a needle can glide through them effortlessly, making them ideal for embroidery projects. Whether you’re a company selling custom tea towels or a hobbyist looking to spice up their kitchen, flour sack towels can be embroidered with a large range of jewels, beads, and gems without losing their structural integrity in the process.

There’s a huge range of things you can do with your flour sack towel. Want to embroider opulent gems onto your decorative towel? No problem! Want to screen-print a family recipe onto your tea towel, giving it multiple kitchen applications? No problem! Whatever you do to these historical and versatile towels, be sure to treat them with care.