Tuesday, July 10, 2012

The Many Purposes of a Tea Towel

One of COTS most popular item is our “oh-so-fab” tea towel.  Why so popular one might ask?  We believe our tea towels make the PERFECT hostess gifts and kitchen accessories. They go even better when delivering baked goods to your friends or neighbors. Yes, people still do that, and then your kind gesture turns into an extra special treat delivered.


Fourth of July and Team USA Towels


Giada De Laurentiis has a COTS towel.


Here at COTS, we strongly believe that life’s accessories should not be expensive so we priced our tea towels at $10.  Perhaps I should go back to the basics and explain the history of the tea towel.  Traditionally tea towels were used to cover warm scones or tea pots to prevent heat loss.  I’m sensing that is where the name came from.  A dictionary definition of a tea towel is a towel used to dry dishes and/or utensils.  Hhhmmm, All-righty then….. how about I just share what we like to do with tea towels.  Like the dictionary definition, I tend to grab a tea towel when I dry any silver, glasses and plates.  They leave what I’m drying completely spot and lint free.  Brenda recently taught me that because our towels are made from 100% cotton 28”x29” flour-sack material, they are perfect to use when rolling out pie crust, cookies or pizza dough.  Simply lay our towel on the counter, sprinkle some flour on it and then proceed to roll out the dough.  Once done, just pick-up the towel containing the loose flour and shake it outside.  However you decide to use your COTS tea towels, we are confident that there is a design that best suits your personality, or your friends, since you’ll soon realize it’s the perfect, affordable gift to give for any occasion or simply because they are oh-so-fab!