Standard Kitchen Towel Sizes

Towels and potholders are part of the kitchen interior, those accessories enhance its brightness and originality. Especially if you sew these textile products with your own hands.

A kitchen towel is a pledge of clean and dry hands of the hostess.

DIY kitchen towels: tips for hostess

Kitchen towel can be sewn into a suitable size and with a suitable pattern with your own hands.

When self-manufacturing such products should consider:

• colors;
• the cloth;
• type of holder;
• manufacturing techniques;
• and, of course, sizes.

Recommended Kitchen Towel Size

You can make towels of any size and shape. However, there are several standard options.

Experienced housewives opt for a rectangular piece of fabric 30x60cm or 40x70cm. Please note that to create such towels you need to cut the material with a margin of 0.5-1 cm per seam on each side.

A set of towels-week “Children's menu” size 35x60 cm

Set of kitchen towels (waffle and terry) size 40x60 cm

However, sometimes the gap is neglected. If you are going to decorate the edges with a braid, a different shade of fabric, knitted lace, you can leave the stock in size.

Tapestry round towel “Lavender” with a purple band around the edge is a beautiful non-standard version.

In matters of shape and size, it is better to adhere to accepted standards, showing your individuality and creative approach in the selection of shades, material, decor, type of holder.

Towels are one of the important decorative components of the kitchen interior.

Kitchen Towel Decoration: Appropriate Art Techniques

Cute bells to decorate a kitchen towel

Here it is permissible to show imagination. There are several common handicraft techniques that are relevant in this case.

• Embroidery
  

  Beautiful kitchen towels with embroidery

Well suited surface, cross, ribbons. The main thing is to choose sufficiently strong and stable threads of harmonious shades, to find or come up with a pattern.

The color of embroidery should be combined with the fabric from which the towel is made. And with the color solution of the kitchen interior. With shades of tiles on the walls, furniture fittings, tablecloths and curtains.

Handmade towel with embroidery and lace “French breakfast”

Suppose any pattern, but more often used: floral motifs, ethnic ornaments, images of vegetables, fruits, animals.

• Patchwork

Patchwork kitchen towel will be a bright and stylish accessory in the kitchen

Patchwork - the creation of textiles from individual patches. The masters of this technique make this way whole pictures. And although it is impractical to turn a kitchen towel into a work of art, it is quite acceptable to decorate it in this way, giving it individuality.

For example, you can make a multi-colored edging around the edge. It looks unusual and attractive, makes the towel more durable.A good solution is to make a decorative and practical patchwork holder.

Beautiful kitchen towel with ruffles and patchwork appliqué

• Crochet
  

  Binding of towels with lace border

The hook is a versatile tool with a wide range of possibilities. In this case, with his help, you can make a spectacular lacy towel tying around the edge, a reliable and beautiful holder. It is only important to choose good threads that are strong enough, do not fade and are in harmony with other elements of the kitchen decoration in color.

Set of kitchen towels, decorated with decorative crochet strapping

Neat, elegant, unusual decoration of kitchen accessories with their own hands can give the room additional comfort and originality.

Kitchen towels with eyelet and border, decorated with their own hands

Original and comfortable towel holder

Kitchen towel with a stylish holder

The holder is the element with which the towel is hung on a specially provided hook or handle. This may be a simple loop of the same fabric as the towel itself. But there are other, more unusual and bright options.

Brass Kitchen Towel Hooks

Decoupage wooden hanger with two handmade hooks

For example, you can make the holder as a complete patchwork composition. In the form of a cat's face, a bouquet of flowers, a teapot. It is possible to knit this element of colored wool thread. This will increase its durability and reliability. And so on. Here you are limited only by imagination.

Kitchen hand towels with holders can be hung on the handle of the cabinet or oven

Choosing a fabric for practical towels

Towels made from different fabrics can be useful in the kitchen for different purposes.

A kitchen towel should absorb moisture well, be easy to wash and be durable. These criteria best meet natural linen and cotton.

A comparison of these materials is given in the table.

Beautiful and comfortable linen towel for the kitchen

Flax looks more convenient, but the properties of the finished textile product depend not only on the selected raw materials. And from cotton and linen make different types of fabric: smooth, waffle, terry.

Beautiful and comfortable cotton kitchen towels

In the place for cooking it is better to use the last two options, they absorb moisture more effectively.

• Waffle materials
  

  A waffle towel over the entire surface has flat squares that improve hydroscopicity

They are a cotton fabric with a surface of characteristic squares. The hygroscopicity of such textiles is slightly higher than that of its closest competitors, as is the strength.

• Terry materials
  

  Soft and light terry towels will be used in any kitchen.

They resemble a small pile, made of cotton or linen, often with the addition of synthetics. Thanks to the latter they are easier to erase.

What matter to choose to create stylish accessories for the kitchen, you decide.

Original and spectacular handmade kitchen towels

Decorate your home, sew original and interesting kitchen towels with your own hands!

A simple towel can be decorated with appliqués, ruffles and made a thematic accessory.

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