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Daily Swatch: Butterflies
Tammis Keefe butterflies and dragonflies tea towel. Image from some eBay seller years ago.
Daily Swatch: May Flowers
Vintage tea towel, from the collection of annabetts on Flickr.
Daily Swatch: Calendar Tea Towels
1958 is our year, originally uploaded by Hillary Lang.
This is the grand finale of this month of calendar tea towels. Hillary posted about her beautiful 1958 Pennsylvania Dutch-motif towel here. I hope you’ve been inspired to go find (or make) one for your year.
Daily Swatch: Calendar Tea Towels
Startex 1960 calendar tea towel, $10 from Rubylane seller Black Dog Kitchen. Googling “Startex” revealed that there is a town by that name in South Carolina, it’s a textile industry-heavy area. This page has a photo of “the remains of the Startex Mill” … don’t know if that is the origin of this towel though.
Daily Swatch: Calendar Tea Towels
1958 linen Pennsylvania Dutch-themed calendar towel designed by Francis G. Dearden, $15 from Rubylane seller Chez Marianne.
Daily Swatch: Calendar Tea Towels
1961 French sports-themed calendar tea towel, $21 from Etsy seller intovintagecloths.
Daily Swatch: Calendar Tea Towels
1973 calendar wall hanging with folky houses and a house blessing prayer, $12.00 from Etsy seller createjacksonville.
Daily Swatch: Calendar Tea Towels
Here’s a 1971 Vera calendar tea towel with Pennsylvania Dutch-inspired motifs, for auction on eBay (current bid $5 with free shipping, ends Jan-25-09 15:13:20 PST).
Daily Swatch: Calendar Tea Towels
eBay auction for two farmy, folksy calendar tea towels from the 1950s: one from from 1958 (no identifying info), the other from 1959 by Margret Tomes for Original Town House Kitchen Decoratives. Auction ending soon, Jan-23-09 11:31:42 PST.
Daily Swatch: Calendar Tea Towels
Sweet 1964 Pennsylvania Dutch-themed calendar tea towel, from the collection of little Miss Vintage on Flickr.
Daily Swatch: Calendar Tea Towels
An assortment of vintage textile wall calendars from curdsnwhey (Nanette of Rummage) on Flickr. Here’s another shot with the years visible: 1969-81.
Daily Swatch: Calendar Tea Towels
Vintage Vera 1962 Linen Calendar tea towel with jam jars, from eBay seller parkerwendy. Current bid $9.99, auction ends Jan-18-09 18:35:00 PST.
Daily Swatch: Calendar Tea Towels
1970 Pennsylvania Dutch calendar, from rubylane seller Lisa’s Vintage Treasures. There are three towels printed on one length of fabric.
Daily Swatch: Calendar Tea Towels
1982 Vera Rainbow Themed Kitchen Towel, from Rubylane seller in2vintagecloths.
Daily Swatch: Calendar Tea Towels
Here is a shout out to all my Australian peops! A thrifted souvenir Australia calendar tea towel (now that’s triple duty) from the collection of allthestuffilike on Flickr. I hope to find more souvenir/collector tea towels from other countries this month. Seen any?
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