Tea towels are ephemeral, even throwaway. Their most everyday of purposes might seem to rob them of any potential dignity. Frayed and holey, hanging on the rail of the Aga or revisited in a pile of ironing…
Pat designed over 300 tea towels for the Trust. This book is a record of that body of work, containing a selection of the designs that have given so much pleasure both to the members of the Trust and to their designer.
Just as the programme serves as souvenir of a play, a lasting memory of the visit to the theatre, so, for many years, the tea towel was a vital part of a visit to a National Trust property…