Blue Coral Swirl Handprinted Batik Cotton Kitchen Tea Towel

Cotton tea towel
measures 20" x 28" square (approx)
Color: Blue , Light Aqua, Natural White
Machine wash cold. Tumble or line dry.
One tea towel

This tea towel is made in Ghana of woven cotton. Each towel is hand batik painted with wax, and then hand dyed Monica, a local craftswoman in Elmina, and then sewn in Brooklyn. Every piece comes with a beautiful hang tag, with a description of Rustic Loom's process.

I designed this pattern in my Brooklyn studio and worked with the batik artisan via skype/ phone to produce the fabric. The pattern is inspired by the pebbles and water in nature, and made of layers of batik wax printing and dyeing.

Batik is a laborious process which entails several steps of block printing with wax and dyeing to get layered colors and shades. At the end of this process the wax is removed by boiling the fabric to reveal the beautiful pattern.