Printed Tea Towels
With over 40 years of experience, Countryside Art is the UK’s premier destination for high-quality printed tea towels. Operating from our modern, purpose-built factory in the heart of the Lincolnshire Wolds, we combine traditional craftsmanship with the latest technology to bring your designs to life. Whether you are looking for custom tea towels for a gift shop or personalised tea towels for a school fundraiser, our expert team ensures a flawless finish every time.
Why Choose Our Custom Tea Towels?
We pride ourselves on offering a level of bespoke input that is unmatched in the industry. Because everything from initial design to final manufacture is handled in-house, we can maintain the highest standards of quality and ethical sustainability.
- Premium British Quality: Our tea towels are woven and finished to our specific requirements, ensuring a superior surface for both screen and digital printing.
- Expert Design Support: Our talented design team, including some of the UK’s best textile colour separators, will help you create the perfect personalised tea towels.
- Sustainable & Ethical: We use water-based inks and offer organic fabric options, ensuring your custom tea towels are as eco-friendly as they are beautiful.
Types of printing
At Countryside Art, we offer both traditional screen printing and modern digital printing to suit a wide range of tea towel designs and production runs.
Screen printing is ideal for bold, vibrant artwork and larger quantities, delivering exceptional colour quality and durability with up to 10 spot colours available. It’s perfect for striking illustrations, heritage designs and all-over prints. Our digital printing service is best suited to highly detailed artwork, photographic images and smaller runs, allowing for unlimited colour combinations and quick turnaround times. Both methods can be produced as edge-to-edge prints using high-quality water-based inks for a beautiful finished product.
Minimum Order Quantities
Our minimum order quantity starts at just 25 tea towels for a digital print and 100 tea towels for a screen print up to orders of many thousands for volume runs
Colours
We are expert at mixing to any pantone colour required plus matching by eye to supplied swatches or existing products such as mugs etc. We always keep a sample from your first order. So when you place a repeat order we benchmark the colours back to the sample, ensuring excellent repeatability time after time.
Dimensions
Our standard tea towel size is 48cm by 76cm approx.
However, because we are unique in having all our cutting and sewing facilities on site, we can also make bespoke sized customised tea towels at a competitive price (for larger orders only).
Colourfastness
All our tea towels are heat-cured through huge gas dryers ensuring excellent colour-fastness.
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Tea Towels For The Commemorative & Charity Market – whether our designers produce an attractive line drawing for your church, or we assist in developing a complete giftware range for your charity, our experience shines through every time
Tea Towels For The Trade & Promotional Market – you can rely on us to hit the mark every time when price coupled with superb quality are the key performance indicators
Volume Orders
If you’re looking to buy high quality bulk order towels, made in the UK, be sure to read on to find out more about our services. We are very well equipped to deal with very large order volumes.
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Types of Printing On Offer
We offer various types of state-of-the-art printing including all-over, edge-to-edge screen print in up to 10 spot colours, full colour process (in which we are acknowledged, prize-winning industry leaders), combined full colour process and spot colour, plus a wide range of metallic options including glitters.
In addition we have a full digital printing service; this is great for designs with more than 10 spot colours and for small full colour runs or short runs in general. All-over, edge-to-edge printing is available for all our digital textile products too.
Follow this link to our blog to read about how we solely use water-based inks and to see how eco-friendly and sustainable they are.
All-over, edge-to-edge printing is available for all our digital textile products too.
Our MHM 10 Colour Automatic Screen Printing Carousel
Judged Number One In The World at FESPA
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Fabrics
All our tea towel fabrics are carefully sourced from various countries including Turkey, India and Pakistan and are woven and finished in the UK to our own specifications. This enables us to have complete control over the quality, colour-yield and provenance of the fabrics we offer.
Here are descriptions and images of our range of fabrics suitable for tea towels:-
Premium Cotton
(weight 174gms/sq mtr approx) – A non-optic, pure bleach finish (the colour of double cream) designed to co-ordinate with our bleached 8oz cotton drill, calico and 10oz canvas.
Standard Cotton
(174gms/sq mtr approx) – A bright white finish designed to co-ordinate with our 220gsm and 280gsm bleached panama.
Unbleached Cotton
(174gms/sq mtr approx) – An unbleached, natural oat-meal finish with flecks of cotton seeds designed to co-ordinate with our unbleached 8oz cotton drill, calico, 10oz canvas and 220gsm and 280gsm panama.
Bleached Organic Cotton
(174gms/sq mtr approx) – An organic non-optic, pure bleach fabric (the colour of double cream).
Unbleached Organic Cotton
(174gms/sq mtr approx) – An organic unbleached, natural oat-meal finish with flecks of cotton seeds designed to co-ordinate with our unbleached 8oz organic cotton drill and 280gsm unbleached organic panama.
Linen Union
(200gsm/sq mtr approx) – A bright white optic finish 50/50 cotton/linen blend designed to co-ordinate with our 220gsm and 280gsm bleached panama.
For Heavier-weight & Digital Print Options
Bleached Panama (Digital Only)
(220gsm/sq mtr approx) – A bright white optic finish designed to co-ordinate with our 280gsm bleached panama.
Unbleached Panama (Digital Only)
(220gsm/sq mtr approx) – An unbleached, natural oat-meal finish with flecks of cotton seeds designed to co-ordinate with our unbleached 8oz cotton drill, calico, 10oz canvas and 220gsm and 280gsm panama.
8oz Black Cotton Drill (Screen Print Only)
(220gsm/sq mtr approx) – A reactive, vat-dyed fabric suitable for discharge, opaque, metallic printing and embroidery.
8oz Bleached Cotton Drill
(220gsm/sq mtr approx) – A bleached non-optic very pale cream finish. This weight of fabric is the most popular choice for heavy-weight tea towels, offering both durability and value for money.
8oz Unbleached Cotton Drill
(220gsm/sq mtr approx) – An unbleached, natural oat-meal finish with flecks of cotton seed. Again this is the most popular choice for customers seeking a natural, quality fabric at a good price.
Pre-treated Fabrics for Digital Printing
Whilst our digital prints on our untreated fabrics are already bright and colourful – if you are after more vibrant colours (reds and blues in particular) plus very strong blacks, then we offer pre-treated fabrics for an additional charge.
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Bespoke Sewing Options
One of the strengths of Countryside Art is we have a very large, well-equipped Sewing Unit so we can offer all types of bespoke add-ons in the manufacturing of your custom printed tea towels.
Our bespoke sewing options are as follows:
Thread Colours – we have an enormous range of different thread colours enabling us to match to any colours for all-over, edge-to-edge quality printed tea towels.
Wash Labels – we can use our own standard labels or we can to include our customer’s own wash labels.
Hanging Loops – we offer a wide range of hanging loop colours for your customised tea towel, or can even sew in customer’s own provided hanging loops.
We can also provide diagonal hanging loops or multiple hanging loops which are popular on the continent. Again please just let us know what you want.
Customer’s Own Supplied Logo Labels – we can sew in supplied logo labels in either a standard position on the reverse of the tea towel or a special position such as on the front – the choice is yours.
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Hanging Loop Colours
Why not jazz up your tea towels with a coloured hanging loop – an inexpensive way to make a statement.
Navy
(polyester)
Brown
(polyester)
Pink
(polyester)
Green
(polyester)
Cream
(polyester)
Purple
(polyester)
Natural White
(polyester)
Dawn Grey (polyester)
Orange
(polyester)
Royal Blue
(polyester)
Steel Grey
(polyester)
Theatre Blue
(polyester)
Black
(polyester)
Unbleached
(cotton)
Red
(polyester)
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Bespoke Packaging Options
In addition to making your tea towel a special gift, bespoke packaging strengthens your branding and can be an ideal platform to provide more information plus promote your website and on-line shop
We’ve listed all the options along with images to make it easy to choose the right packaging for your tea towel.
Bulk Packed – your tea towels will be supplied packed in poly bags of either 10 or 25 depending on the order quantity. For a small extra charge we do have the option of bulk packing in smaller quantities too
Individually Bagged – if you need to keep your stock protected when on display we offer individual bagging in clear polypropylene bags.
To further enhance presentation and promote your brand we can add the following packaging – all printed digitally in-house at very competitive prices:-
Tea Towel Individually Bagged With Inserts –can be folded in 8ths or 16ths, plus the inserts can be any shape or size
Tea Towel Wrap Individually Bagged With A Euro Hanger – folded in 8ths
Tea Towel Wrap Unbagged – folded in 8ths and can also be supplied individually bagged too
Tea Towel Wrap Unbagged – Folded in 16ths and can be supplied individually bagged too.
Set of two tea towels – Folded into 16ths (top left) and 8ths (bottom right) both can be supplied individually bagged.
Swing Tickets – These are available as single or double sided prints on matt or shiny card. They can be any size and are attached with nylon kimbles, ribbon or string.
Trays and Hangars
Available with individual bagging only. Euro hangers can be added
Card Header with Punched Euro Slot
Great if you want to hang up the tea towel without a plastic bag. A swing ticket can make a nice addition to show the individual design if you want to use a generic header across a range of designs
Jute String or Ribbon
Why not try something different. A swing ticket makes a nice addition plus we also have plastic hangers so the item can be displayed hung up
Set of 2 Tea Towels on a Plastic Hanger
A swing ticket makes a nice addition to this option
Co-ordinated Sets
We can provided co-ordinated packaging across a range of products. The Cadbury range pictured here includes a tea towel, plus an apron and double oven glove in hanger bags
Barcodes
Since many retailers are requesting stock to be barcoded, we also provide the in-house option to print any type of barcode onto all our packaging options.
This includes headers, trays, wraps, inserts, swing tickets or on to peel-able self-adhesive labels.
Plus we can attach customer’s provided barcode labels too.
More Bespoke Options
If you require something different to the above please let us know. We are always open to our customer’s requirements and this is how some of our popular packaging ideas have come about. We are also happy to use packaging supplied by the customer.
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