The perfect practical and portable gift for friends and family... and if caught out and under attack you can also tear it into strips and use the cloth as an ignition component in Molotov Cocktails!

No, but seriously... in addition to having a 'Larrikin' comment printed on it to inspire your house mates to dry the dishes - here are a few other useful benefits of our high quality, attractive, and absorbent tea towels:

Reduce Your Dependence on Paper Towels: A stack of tea towels can greatly reduce your dependence on paper towels and the amount of solid waste in your home. You probably do laundry every few days anyway—the towels can be tossed in the washer with other linens and used over and over again. Once you get in the habit of using tea towels for the below uses (to name a few), you will rarely reach for a paper towel.

• Loosely wrap freshly washed salad and cooking greens in a tea towel to absorb excess moisture.
• Line refrigerator drawers with a clean tea towel to catch drips or moisture. Replace with a clean towel each week.
• Place a fresh tea towel on the counter at the beginning of each meal preparation for wiping hands and sweeping away crumbs.

Protect Kitchen Equipment: While tea towels are great for drying dishes, they can also protect them from scratches. Fold the towels to fit between stacked plates and pots and pans to prevent scratches. Use tea towels to line storage areas to help prevent chipping or scratches from wooden or wire shelves. And, if you are moving or packing up breakable items, tea towels are perfect padding.

Wrap Gifts:  No need to hunt for wrapping paper or a gift bag, just use a tea towel to wrap gifts. A great pairing for gifted soaps, kitchen tools, or a bottle of wine, the towel becomes part of the present.

Wrap a Loaf of Bread: To complete this baker's dozen of uses, a tea towel is perfect for wrapping a homemade (or bakery-bought) loaf of bread for gift-giving. The recipient can then use the towel in a bread basket to help keep your delicious bread warm when serving. The natural cotton or linen fibers help absorb moisture from the warm bread and prevent it from becoming soggy.

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Finally, for the un-initiated - a brief note on the term, 'Larrikin' which is a part of the ANZAC Spirit.

A Larrikin is a term meaning "a mischievous, uncultivated, rowdy, but goodhearted person", or "a person who acts with apparent disregard for social or political conventions". Originating from the West Midlands region of England, (particularly the counties of Worcestershire and Warwickshire) it was also related to the verb 'to larrack' in the Yorkshire dialect, meaning "to lark about".

As larrikin increasingly began to be used by journalists in their reports of Melbourne street life during the 1870s, the word spread to other localities in Australia and New Zealand and was rapidly established as a colonial word. However, the colonial concept of a 'larrikin' had a harder edge than its original English dialect usage. Larrikins were aged from about eleven years to their early twenties, most commonly in their mid-to-late teens. They were mostly from poor backgrounds, earning a precarious living from low-status work or petty crime, with a characteristic streetwise brashness^.

A letter to the editor of the Geelong Advertiser in November 1870, complaining of the "larrikin nuisance" on the market reserve in Geelong, described the typical behaviour of larrikins as engaging in "rows and fights", obstructing the footpath and employing "the foulest and most blasphemous language, frequently to passers-by".

The Larrikin label was most likely used by British Officers to describe ANZAC soldiers, and happily adopted with irreverence by those ANZACs.