My sister brought me some linen towels from the 70s. I liked the prints on them, so decided to use them as decoration. They all had a narrow sleeve at the top, so I cut down wire hangers to make hanging rods.
Photo description: white wire hangers cut with lineman’s pliers and the ends looped with needle nose pliers
I took leather cordage and tied it to the wire loops.
Photo description: calendar towel from 1974 with wire and leather hanging hardware
I didn’t like how the wire sagged, so I tacked the linen to the leather about a third of the way in with cotton thread.
Photo description: closeup of tacked sectionPhoto description: same towel hanging on the wall, but with thread tacks and no sagging, towel has drawings of kitchen implements Photo description: linen calendar towel from 1973 with birds hanging on the wall with new hardware along with chickadee art, and photos of a barn owl and field mouse by Oliver Hellowell
The production of calendar towels began in the 1950s and was an invention of Stevens Linen Works in Dudley, Massachusetts.
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