picknick tea towel - blossom & blue

A useful small kitchen tray, perfect for delivering drinks to the table. Featuring the vintage 1950's Picknick design by Marianne Westman, the trays are made in Sweden from birch veneer by a family run company using traditional techniques.

Marianne Westman's vintage Picknick print featuring Scandinavian pea pods in muted tones. This chopping board looks as good on the dining table for a bit of 'help-yourself' informal bread slicing, as it does working hard in your kitchen.

Marianne Westman's vintage Picknick print featuring dill in muted tones is a trivet that is lovely to have on your table - and being heat-proof, will save it from scorch marks too.

Designed by Marianne Westman in 1954, her Picknick design shows a variety of Scandinavian food stuffs laid out as if for a picnic. It has now been recoloured in a fresh new palette of blossom & sage, perfect for making colourful retro curtains, tablecloths, aprons or cushions!

Marianne Westman's vintage Picknick print featuring colourful salads is a trivet that is lovely to have on your table - and being heat-proof, will save it from scorch marks too.

A good sized tray, perfect for serving Sunday lunch on from the kitchen to the dining room. Featuring Marianne Westmans 1950's vintage Picknick design , the trays are made in Sweden using traditional birch veneer techniques.

A handy size tray, perfect for transporting a nice cup of tea and a slice of cake to your favourite chair. Picknick features a 1950's vintage design by Marianne Westman, the trays are made from birch veneer in Sweden by a family run company using traditional techniques.

A useful small kitchen tray, perfect for delivering drinks to the table. Featuring the vintage 1950's Picknick design by Marianne Westman, the trays are made in Sweden from birch veneer by a family run company using traditional techniques.

Designed by Marianne Westman in 1954, her Picnick design shows a variety of Scandinavian food stuffs laid out as if for a picnic. Perfect for making colourful retro curtains, tablecloths, aprons or cushions!

Featuring Marianne Westman's fabulous Picknick design from 1956 of various Scandinavian foods, this oil cloth fabric is amazing, nothing like its plastic coated cousin except that it's machine washable and very wipeable.

This generously sized cooks' apron will keep you clean and tidy whether baking or barbecuing. Printed with Marianne Westman's iconic 1950's design Picknick, showing a variety of Scandinavian picnic foods.

Fish Supper tea towel is a charming vintage Swedish kitchen design by Louise Carling from the 1950s. Printed on cotton/linen, this stylized design shows fish and vegetables for a good healthy supper. A perfect drying-up cloth for your kitchen!

Crazy Pots tea towel (or Italiensk Blomsterhylla in Swedish) is a charming happy flower pot design by Olle Eksell. A drying-up cloth or tea towel that truly makes the washing up all the happier!

Geraniums (Pelargonia) is an authentic stylish Swedish tea towel design by Almedahls Design Studio. Printed in red colour on a cotton/linen mix, this drying-up cloth is perfect for the kitchen of any green fingered friend.

Fish Market tea towel is a cheerful collection of fish and lemon slices designed by Ulla Baarnhielm on this original vintage 1950's Swedish kitchen dish towel drying-up cloth.

A charming vintage blue printed tea towel showing pots and pans in a Swedish kitchen, by Louise Fougstedt and designed in the 1950’s. This decorative drying-up dish cloth is made in Scandinavia.

This sponge cloth offers a clever modern reworking of Astrid Sampe's classic 1950's Persons Kryddskap (or Herb Garden) tea towel design in monochrome black and white. In terms of the washing-up this little sponge cloth is a marvel, as it's highly absorbent and does a great job scrubbing the dishes.

A super-stylish all-purpose kitchen sponge cloth featuring Almedahls classic blue Christmas Cooks Dancing design (or Kokspolka in Swedish) from the 1950's. The dry sponge cloth was invented in 1949 by Swedish engineer Curt Lindqvist, and can absorb an amazing 15 times its own weight of water. Makes washing up that little bit easier.

Aune Laukkanen designed this blue Biscuit Baking naïve style tea towel back in the 60's. Just imagine a family of cooks baking biscuits for you.... all on a lovely cotton/linen drying-up cloth!

Dancing Cooks (Kokspolka) is a classic Swedish Christmas favourite tea towel design by Almedahls. Available in red this lovely dish cloth or drying-up towel will make a stylish gift for Xmas hosts.