ARTICLES

/ LITERATURE

PRODUCERS

FUNCTION & Dish

washing

NAMES IN DIFFERENT 

LANGUAGES

DE: HAUSWIRTSCHAFT
ENG: HOUSEKEEPING
NL: HUISHOUDING
IT: FACCENDE DOMESTICE
FR: ENTRETIEN MéNAGER
SWE: HUSH°ALLNING

DE: Geschirrtuch
ENG: Tea Towel / Dish towel
NL: Theedoek
IT: Strofinaccio
FR: Torchon
SWE: Kökshandduk

MUSEUM
/ARCHIEVEN

RE-INTERPRETATIONS

RE-INTERPRETATIONS from different Designers;
Pieke Bermans: Error Nr.1 Tea Towel
Studio Job: Perished Tea Towel
Viktor & Rolf: Graffiti Red Tea Towel

HISTORY

BINDINGS &

TECHNIQUES

- drying dishes
- keeping bread inside
- use as table cloth
- whiping kitchen surfaces
- drying and polishing chineese porceline (in the 18th century)
- drying hands
- general a very wide usage in the kitchen
- function also changed when major changes happened in societey, like itroduction of tea, invention of dishwasher

Books to read about Household and Household linen in general:

Literatuur die mogelijk aanknopingspunten kan bieden:
Bill Bryson, At home: a short history of private life (Anchor Books, 2011).

Clive Edwards, Turning houses into homes. A history of the retailing and consumption of domestic furnishings (London: Routledge, 2005).

Steven Lubar & David Kingery, History from things: essays on material culture (London: Smithsonian Institution press,
Robin Netherton & Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Medieval clothing and textiles (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2005).

Joy Parr, ‘Introduction: modern kitchen, good home, strong nation,’ Technology and Culture 43 (4), 2007: p. 657-667.

Sara Pennell, ‘Pots and pans history: the material culture of the kitchen in early modern England,’ Journal of Design History 11 (3), 2018: p. 201-216.

Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Encyclopedia of Kitchen History (Fitzroy Dearborn: London, 2004).

Shirley Wajda, The kitchen. A social history of cooking and eating (abc-clio, 2019).

De vrouwelijke textielontwerpers die werden aangesproken om het Belgisch erepaviljoen op de Wereldtentoonstelling van 1935 van alle soorten tafellinnen te voorzien, waren Marie-Louise Zimmer en Ivonne Kaufmann.

Dit is een interessant boek over de geschiedenis van huishoudlinnen:
The book of fine linen / Françoise de Bonville. - Paris : Flammarion, 1994.

DISH WASHING / HUISHOUDEN

INSPIRATIE & Random things

COTTON ROLLER TOWEL :-)
" the endless towel"

CHINESE PORCELAIN

The blue willow Pattern, was one of the first mass produced porcelain plates and patterns in England from the 18th century. (see youtube video)