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A lovely printed loaf board featuring Marianne Westman's iconic Picknick design with Scandinavian salads - the long narrow shape makes it perfect for cutting into a crusty loaf.

Marianne Westman's vintage Picknick print featuring colourful salads is a trivet that is lovely to have on your table - and being heat-proof, will save it from scorch marks too.

A good sized tray, perfect for serving Sunday lunch on from the kitchen to the dining room. Featuring Marianne Westmans 1950's vintage Picknick design , the trays are made in Sweden using traditional birch veneer techniques.

A handy size tray, perfect for transporting a nice cup of tea and a slice of cake to your favourite chair. Picknick features a 1950's vintage design by Marianne Westman, the trays are made from birch veneer in Sweden by a family run company using traditional techniques.

A useful small kitchen tray, perfect for delivering drinks to the table. Featuring the vintage 1950's Picknick design by Marianne Westman, the trays are made in Sweden from birch veneer by a family run company using traditional techniques.

Designed by Marianne Westman in 1954, her Picnick design shows a variety of Scandinavian food stuffs laid out as if for a picnic. Perfect for making colourful retro curtains, tablecloths, aprons or cushions!

This generously sized cooks' apron will keep you clean and tidy whether baking or barbecuing. Printed with Marianne Westman's iconic 1950's design Picknick, showing a variety of Scandinavian picnic foods.

A perfect tea towel for the Summer BBQ designed by Louise Fougstedt in the 1950’s. This blue, black and red heritage dishcloth depicts what is on the barbecue and is great al fresco dining.

Designed by British designer Charlotte Farmer, our teapot tea towel is one of our most popular and is perfect gift drying up all those tea cups (or pots). Screen printed in England, this lovely kitchen t. towel makes a lovely gift or collectors item.

Charlotte Farmer's Souvenir Spoons tea towel is a perfect gift for any collector, especially lovers of old vintage cutlery. The perfect kitchen drying up cloth after afternoon tea and cakes!

A super-stylish all-purpose kitchen sponge cloth featuring Almedahls classic blue Christmas Cooks Dancing design (or Kokspolka in Swedish) from the 1950's. The dry sponge cloth was invented in 1949 by Swedish engineer Curt Lindqvist, and can absorb an amazing 15 times its own weight of water. Makes washing up that little bit easier.

These stylish Asha tea towels were created by Melanie Darwin who created the original design by punching card with a pin to create her tree patterns. This kitchen drying-up cloth comes in fashionable gooseberry green colour and is printed on an absorbent cotton & linen mix in England.

This lovely linen/cotton vintage tea towel featuring Marianne Nilssons blue herring (or 'Sill' in Swedish) is from the 1950's. It was one of the most popular Swedish designs of it's day and is still a best seller today. Printed in a strong blue on a white base, this tea or dish cloth is perfect for any kitchen.

This unique gardening tea towel will put a smile on any gardeners face when doing the drying-up. Illustrator Charlotte Farmer has designed one gardening dishcloth for the flower grower and another for vegetable gardeners, so choose carefully!

Pomona is another brightly coloured, cheerful tea towel design by Marianne Westman. Her design of stylized apples is printed on a high quality linen/cotton fabric and is a perfect washing-up cloth for that 1960's Scandinavian look.

Charlotte Farmer is a bit of a snow globe collector and has created her own snow globe tea towel, featuring shakers of the world ...and Elvis. Printed on cotton/linen, this kitchen dishcloth will give years of good service!