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A lovely printed loaf board featuring Marianne Westman's iconic Picknick design with Scandinavian salads - the long narrow shape makes it perfect for cutting into a crusty loaf.

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.

Picknick is an authentic Swedish tea towel design by Marianne Westman in the 1950's. Her Scandinavian homeware designs were the most popular of their day, and this kitchen dish cloth still looks great today.

This lovely linen/cotton tea towel from the Almedahls Studio features little blue fish swimming "Against the Flow" (or "Mot Strommen" in Swedish). It is printed in strong blues on a white base so this tea or dish cloth is perfect for any kitchen.

This sponge cloth offers a clever modern reworking of Astrid Sampe's classic 1950's Persons Kryddskap (or Herb Garden) tea towel design in sage green . 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.

This unique gardening tea towel will put a smile on any gardeners face when doing the drying-up. Illustrator Charlotte Farmer has designed one gardening dishcloth for the flower grower and another for vegetable gardeners, so choose carefully!

A super-stylish all-purpose kitchen sponge cloth featuring a red geranium (or Pelargonia in Swedish) design 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.

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.

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!

A charming designer vintage print tea towel featuring a Swedish pantry design by Louise Fougstedt from the 1950’s. This kitchen dishcloth is printed on high quality cotton/linen and perfect for giving your kitchen a vintage feel!

A stylish all purpose kitchen sponge cloth featuring Italiensk Blomsterhylla design (or Crazy Pots) by Olle Eksell. 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.