Tracy’s Tailormade Tea Towel - the devil’s in the detail

The full picture

The client’s shop

A local and not-so-local vintage

Toby

Traditional Indian motif

Close-up of the weave and tea plant flower

Australia map

Polo player

Pooh bear

I’ve been asked to show some of the detail in this tea towel close-up, so here are the shots showing some of the many small illustrations that make up parts of the whole...

Tracy’s tailormade tea towel - printed sample

Tracy’s tailormade tea towel printed in a verdant green  © Peter Gander 2012

Tailormade tea towel - final art

Tailormade tea towel  © Peter Gander

Following on from a recent post where I showed this design as a pencil drawing/scamp, here’s the final artwork ready to be turned into a screen for printing (it will print green). Hand-painted brush and ink with hand-drawn marker on layout paper, scanned and reconstructed digitally.

Tea towel delivery!

Buy ’em on Folksy

The 5 printed tea towels, the Queen taking centre stage.  © Peter Gander 2012

We took delivery of our 5 fabulous tea towels yesterday morning and spent the rest of the day folding, ticketing and wrapping a few hundred for our Kent, Sussex and Surrey shops plus a few online retailers too. If you’re out and about in any of these areas, you can buy them at: British Design British Made Battle, Sussex; Rising Star Tenterden, Kent; Smoke on the Water Sandwich, Kent; Nice Things Ramsgate; Murray’s General Stores, The Goods Shed, Canterbury, Kent; Feather & Fern Dorking, Surrey; ToDryFor.com (online); Carried Away Deal, Kent, Bourneside Gallery Gomshall, Surrey; Taking the Plunge, Whitstable, Kent Vintage Vacations Isle of Wight; PHG Cowes, Isle of Wight; Chique Antique, Ryde, IoW; Galerie Le Petit Chien, Navarrenx, SW France; Smith & Stephenson, Ryde, IoW; Den, Petersfield; Cabbage White, Midhurst, Sussex; Sparks Yard, Arundel, Sussex; Sussex Farm Foods, Bury, Pulborough. Thanks to all of our retailers above for their keen support! We’re gradually working our way out from the South East - next, look out Suffolk!

Teapot tea towels, wrapped and ticketed

Tea towel: The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee design

Working on the layout

Inking out a 1st-stage visual in black and white

Drawing the corgis

Diamond Jubilee tea towel  © Peter Gander

To be launched at The Spirit of Summer Fair at Olympia, London this is one of a series of tea towel designs Fiona and I have devised to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Unapologetically patriotic and cheerful, it’s inspired by a playing card design and features a couple of flag-waving and crown-wearing corgis and is completely hand-drawn. Printed in Great Britain and available in Royal Blue on 100% cotton from 16th May 2012 at the fair and thereafter online.