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The dishwasher has robbed the good old kitchen towel of some of its practical significance. Nevertheless, it remains present in many households, hand-woven or industrially produced, lint-free or absorbent, dirty or clean, inherited or replaceable. In some kitchens, special attention is also required, as there is one for the hands and one for the dishes.
For a long time, specially made kitchen towels were a luxury and reserved for the upper classes. Industrial mass production has changed this, and today two developments can be observed: while kitchen towels are displayed as design objects in museum stores and craft stores, they are also standardised cheap goods.
In The Tea Towel: Perspectives on an Everyday Item, 13 authors, artists, and designers enter into a dialogue with the object and examine it from a literary, journalistic, artistic, technical, and socio-political perspective. The contributions of very different tones complement each other and create new references. In text and images, the book encourages a rediscovery of the everyday kitchen towel as a sensual object with which many socially relevant topics are associated.
Contents
10
Foreword
Basil Linder, Vera Roggli, Eva Wolf
20
Spices. Tableware. Cloth.
A Glimpse into the Colonial Kitchen
Hans Fässler
34
A Home Needs a Lot of Washes
Anna Dreussi
44
Thread by Thread
Vera Roggli
78
Four Ways to Bring the Kitchen to the Field
Kim Lang
100
When Work is Waiting.
How the Tea Towel is Depicted
in the Visual Arts
Rebecka Domig
118
The Dowry
Tabea Andres
136
Weaving Conversations.
In Dialogue with my Grandma
Samira Vogel
158
Can You Check the Stove?
Ivie Ada Onaiwu
166
Al Hakawati. if you dig beneath
Masen Al-Saghir
200
Message in a Tea Towel
Tamara Janes
220
From Domestic Object to Activist Symbol.
The Shared Trajectory of the Tea Towel and the Bandana
Alizé Rose-May
240
Daily Traces
Francesca Lucchitta
262
The Mood of a Kitchen Towel
Estelle Bourdet
280 Glossary
290 About the Authors
296 List of Figures
