Aqua Dishtowel Set

The "Geranium" pattern is based off of some absolutely CRAZY wallpaper that we uncovered in our kitchen renovations. Picture this design - but instead of the tasteful white flowers you see here they are an incredible orangey-red and the scale is much larger than seen here on the dishtowels. It also appeared that whoever covered the walls with it had also decided to shoot the moon and do the floor in an electric teal linoleum at the same time. You just have to admire the sort of personality they must have had and I wish I could shake their hand! I knew that wallpaper needed to be preserved somewhere in the house (but perhaps toned down a notch or three) and so I replicated the design and changed the colorway and used it on curtains in my living room. And now it's gone through yet another change and is showing up on dishtowels in the same kitchen that inspired the design in the first place . . . which I love!

The "Blenheim Stripe" pattern is very loosely copied from a wallpaper hanging on the walls of Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, England. Incidentally, I had one of my most embarrassing moments at a champagne and canapes event at Blenheim Palace . . . but that is a story for another time and I'm afraid it wasn't then that I saw the wallpaper so it's hardly relevant. I actually only glimpsed the (very brown) wallpaper in a film which was shot in the palace and I know nothing more about it . . . not even what part of the palace it's in. So really the only thing that connects this to the palace is the name . . .