PLACE REPRESENTED: Ireland
ITEM: Tea Towel
NOTES: Irish Family names on a map of Ireland with the usual symbols of Ireland : the thatched roof cottage, Glendalough Round Tower, a Celtic cross, a drinking cup and a gold collar. I’m not sure how accurate it is an ancestry location locator but many, many Irish surnames are shown.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: 52% linen, 48% cotton.
MADE IN: Ireland
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 45cm x 65cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Canungra, Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Tea Towel
NOTES: A simple but hand made tea towel from the small Gold Coast hinterland town of Canungra. I think the vineyards are a relatively recent addition to the scene but a proud one, hence the grapes. Stylish
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2017
MADE FROM: material
MADE IN: Australia
MANUFACTURER: Marie May
DIMENSIONS: tea towel size
TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA – Tea Towel
PLACE REPRESENTED: Tasmania , Australia
ITEM: Tea Towel
NOTES: A humorous tea towel depicting Tasmania and the "large desolate land off" its northern coast (Australia). All the negatives of the "large desolate land" are mentioned as well as all the postives in Tasmania. I can't speak to all the positives because a lot are value statements but the negatives are accurate. This map is made all that much more humourus by the fact that Australia, often, when depicted, leaves off the the large island state.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s
MADE FROM: 100% cotton
MADE IN: India
MANUFACTURER: Nucolorvue
DIMENSIONS: 44cm x 71cm
BUNYA MOUNTAINS, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA – Tea Towel
PLACE REPRESENTED: Bunya Mountains, Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Tea Towel NOTES: A tea towel with all the colourful flora and fauna of the Bunya Mountains, on the Great Dividing Range in south east Queensland.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s
MADE FROM: 100% cotton
MADE IN: India
MANUFACTURER: Souvenirs Australia
DIMENSIONS: 45cm x 70cm