travel by tea towel

we have a few souvenir tea towels

one of my favourites is of orange crayfish and seashells on a blue background (similar to the tea towel on the left)

it says, 
Greetings from Hook Is Observatory

I had never heard of Hook Island - but I soon found out it is part of the Whitsundays and I immediately wanted to go there (there was a rudimentary resort there but it has been closed for the past few years)

It gave me the idea of visiting our tea towels- we bought our Bicheno tea towel (same design as on the left) while on pre-moon in Tasmania

The Queensland State Library has a souvenir tea towel collection  - (worth a visit next time we're there)

 

   

(I'm not above making some preemptive purchases (Yappoon pineapples, Iluka fish)
I would love a tea towel from kimba (the big galah) and parkes (the dish) and whale sharks at ningaoloo reef... hard to find doing Google image searches, but i'm sure they exist

I have to say, it makes me sad to see "re-purposed" tea towels.  It is true that using tea towels soon fades the textiles.  We use ours as curtains.

although, there is some lovely use of tea towels in art / craft,

for example, jo grant's tea towel works ... / jo grant website

I also read about an artist (Julie Paterson) who makes her own postcards when she visits a place ...

So my idea is .... what if I made my own tea towels after visiting a new town, city, suburb ...

some amusing tea towels i found in my travels
Everingham + Watson tea towels / Sunny boy tea towel / Kookaburras

wonderful designs from yellow studio freeo