Old Tea Towel Embroidery Pattern

For collectors, tea towels embroidery patterns are a fascinating look at the domestic past. These beautiful towels added color and charm to the warm kitchens of the past.

The oldest embroidered tea towels may well be the redwork, or turkeywork, designs that began to be popular in the late 1880s. Women instantly fell in love with the bright color as well as the fact that the dye would not run in this new thread.