Green Stripe Linen Tea Towel

The Dark Green is the deep, quiet one — a bottle-green stripe on a soft oatmeal ground, the colour that grounds a kitchen rather than shouts across it.

It is the towel you reach for without thinking and still notice years on. The open linen weave drinks up water and leaves glasses clear and bright, with none of the lint a printed towel sheds. Hang it by the range or the Aga, fold it over the oven door, set it by the sink — it settles in and stays handsome.

Woven, never printed, so the stripe is part of the cloth. Both sides are finished — a crisp stripe on the front, a softer echo on the reverse — so there is no wrong side. Steam-softened, with neatly overlocked edges.

This is the green you keep, and the one you buy a second of when the first becomes a favourite.

Key details

• Linen and cotton blend, 325gsm, woven (never printed)
• Reversible — finished both sides, no wrong side
• Size: [70 × 45cm as it arrives, settling to about 60 × 44cm after the first wash — pending Amanda]
• Designed by Maison Elhoria, woven in Europe exclusively for us, cut and sewn in Yorkshire, England

Looking after it This is real, untreated cloth, woven in its loom state and never pre-shrunk. It draws in by roughly a tenth on the first wash, mostly in the length, then settles. That is the mark of traditional linen, not a fault. Wash warm at 40°C first, then up to 60°C after, and line dry.

Common questions

• Will it shrink? Yes, about 12% on the length, as it is loom state, on the first wash — , mostly in length. It is woven undressed and never pre-shrunk, which is why it relaxes into its settled size and then stays put.
• Is it good for drying glasses? Yes. The open linen weave is absorbent and lint-free, so glassware comes up clear with no fluff left behind.
• Where is it made? Designed by Maison Elhoria and woven in Europe exclusively for us, then cut and sewn in Yorkshire, England.