A tea towel featuring a six pointed flower made of a different fabric sewn on and embroidered in gold thread. There is additional decorative embroidery in gold, brown, pink, and green surrounding the larger flower. There is some light staining on the…
A tea towel featuring decorative embroidery forming a diamond shape. The diamond is accented in red french knots, and there are three floral accents in the center and on either side of the diamond. The embroidery is beginning to unravel in a few…
Charles Etta Dunlap Thompson (1898-1958) lived in Texas most of her life. During the Great Depression, her husband C. T. Thompson left their home near Proctor, to look for work in West Texas. She followed him later, with the youngest four or five of…
A tea towel featuring hand embroidered flowers in baskets in two places. The flowers and baskets are embroidered in blue, pink, yellow, and green threads. The border is crocheted lace in an off-white color, and is made up of a scalloped motif…
A set of four guest towels that have been hand embroidered. All of the towels are a white fabric with different embroidered motifs on them. Two of the towels feature blue embroidery that spell out “Mr” and “Mrs” with a floral motif. The other two do…
A set of three guest towels that have been hand-embroidered in similar geometric and floral patterns. The towels are blue, yellow, and white, and the embroidery on each of the colored towels matches the color of the towel. The white towel has blue…
A set of two tea towels measuring approximately 18 inches wide. The towels are a solid fabric, but have a crocheted lace insert added to the bottom edge. There are some loose threads on the lace and in the areas where it’s been attached to the rest…
A set of two tea towels, each featuring elaborate hand embroidery. The top towel depicts a monogrammed “B” in blue ombre thread surrounded by a flower wreath with a gold bow on top. The bottom towel depicts a series of flowers and vines in purple,…
A set of two tea towels measuring approximately 22 inches wide. The towels are a solid fabric, but the bottom edge of each includes a row of hand embroidered lace detail, and a crocheted lace decorative edge. There are some loose threads on edges and…
A set of two tea towels measuring approximately 22 inches wide. The towels are solid fabric with white embroidery on the bottom edge in a decorative scalloped pattern.
A set of two tea towels measuring approximately 17.5 inches wide. The towels are damask fabric, but the border is a spiral lace pattern. There is a row of simple hand embroidered lace delineating the border from the rest of the towel. There are some…
A set of two tea towels measuring approximately 18 inches wide. The towels are a solid fabric, but have a strip of lace attached to the bottom edge. The lace is a mix of fabric and thread, and forms a star or pointed floral pattern in two rows.
A tea towel measuring approximately 15 inches wide. The towel is a solid white fabric with a cross-stitched decorative edge along the top and bottom. There is a floral pattern cross-stitched along the bottom of the towel in blue, purple, green, and…
A tea towel measuring approximately 16.5 inches wide. The towel is a solid white fabric with solid blue fabric sewn onto either end. There is a small floral embroidery on the bottom of the towel.
A tea towel measuring approximately 18 inches wide. The towel has been embroidered along the bottom edge. The embroidery depicts two diamonds in a golden-orange thread and a purple basket filled with flowers and vines. There is staining on the body…
A tea towel embroidered in blue, yellow, pink, purple, orange, and brown thread. The embroidery depicts two baskets of flowers, one at the top and one at the bottom of the towel. The towel features a crocheted lace border made up of a series of…
A tea towel featuring a small 3 x 3 grid created using a pulled thread embroidered lace technique. The center of the grid includes a piece of plaid fabric that has been sewn onto the rest of the towel. On either side of the plaid fabric are…
A tea towel in a solid white fabric with solid purple fabric sewn onto either end. There is a small floral embroidery on the bottom of the towel depicting a lattice backing with three floral wreaths.