Octopus Tea Towel by Chavah's Garden

My flour sack tea towels are 100% cotton. My watercolor paintings are printed onto all my fabric goods in my studio with water-based, eco-friendly ink.

Ink is also heat set and permanent so it holds up to the most rigorous washing and drying.

Size: approximately 27 square inches unfolded and 15 inches when folded and hanging. Designs are printed in the lower right hand corner of the towel for easy folding and display on the oven handle. Magically absorbent and ready for the rough and tumble of real kitchen life.

Chavah's Garden is the work of artist Sydney C' de Baca of Seattle, Washington.

A number of years ago I started painting my favorite recipes as gifts for friends——salad dressings, soups, my mother’s spicy guacamole recipe. I loved painting vegetable portraits, and eventually branched out to animals and the rest of the natural world, capturing their colorful, quirky beauty in my watercolor style. Then I remembered my grandmother’s fabulous flour sack tea towels and, in a moment of you-got-your-peanut-butter-in-my-chocolate inspiration, my business was born.

Flour sack fabric is 100% cotton but also has a special element that makes it almost miraculously absorbent. The threads are spun at different tensions so when it's woven together it has a seersucker rippling effect. It is luscious and practical, hence my passion for it. I wrote six or seven factories for samples before finding the real McCoy. I print my own fabric products in studio with eco-friendly ink that is permanent after we heat set it. Beautiful usefulness if ever there was.

Find more of Sydney's work here.