delicious in belgium

art director Janine Couperus from 

delicious magazine nederland

stumbled on studiopatro 

and included us in their january issue.

nice dutch words this time!

a good gift

the unwrapping. 

 a photo from lindsay thompson 

of her gift from mindy gayer. 

we love to see our towels go out into the world 

to be used. 

:)

color of the year

2012 pantone color of the year 

is a shade of red-orange that is "spot on" to our 

copper.

apartment therapy calls it 

"an eminently acceptable dose of happy color 

to add to your interiors" 

 

and we think 

it's always a good idea 

to balance the vibrancy with some beautiful neutral grays.

present-ly shipping

there seems to be a flurry of orders this week, 

and just so you know...

noon on wednesday dec. 21 

(that's california time)

is our deadline for taking orders

for delivery before christmas.

if you're on the east coast, 

that means you've got until 3pm to order!

 

time to wrap it up.

tree time

it's tree time 

and our Leaf Tree is a limited edition 

tea towel that we created especially 

for this season of giving.

10% of sales 

is being donated to an organization 

dedicated to educating children and their families 

about healthy eating. 

happy tree trimming!

café aprons at their best

 

when men serve...

men look great in our café aprons,

as evidenced at a friend's recent baby shower party.

Tyler and Peter served,

and were admired by all!

we speak french

a new interpretation of 
stripes make everything better

in french!

nell dodge created a new e-popup shop
603 here & there
and commissioned these oh-so-french mariniere stripe towels.

will you be on elizabeth street in nyc anytime soon?

thomas sires

has them too.

"tout est mieux avec des rayures"

we're still giving thanks

it's a good time of year to say 

thank you. 

so take 25% off all 

tea towels 

aprons &

market bags 

now through monday november 28th. 

studiopatro.com

enter code giving at checkout. 

(gift sets not included.) 

glamour-us

of course! 

jamie oliver's holiday must-haves 

would include COOK and BAKE

tea towels.

isn't that what the holidays are all about?

in the december issue

nice and simple

our EQUAL tea towel is one of

real simple's

10 holiday hostess gift ideas.

see all 10 here.

thanks

and another 

equally great gift idea is 

EQUAL + PANTRY + DOT

and a beautiful hand-crafted wooden spatula

see it, get it 

at studiopatro.com

spooning

i am so excited. 

we've just received these small wooden spatulas 

handmade one-by-one by 

edwards smith. 

part of a holiday apron gift set we're preparing. 

read edwards' story here.

orange time of year

it's that time of year.

orange = october.

so take carry goods anywhere to carry just about anything.

happy harvesting :)

leaf it to me

there's a sale going on 

at studiopatro.com 

to mark the fall season, 

any tea towel printed with leaves 

is $18 

(that's 25% off). 

 

pick and choose from 13 leaf designs.

 

offer ends on sunday october 9th, so shop now 

and rake in some leaves.

use me

I often hear from customers
that they don't want to use their tea towels
because the towels are just too nice. 

but I love the linen best when it's used
and washed
and used again and again.

soft and crumpled. 

just like these photos from lissa
who writes a blog
dedicated to food, family, friends, and time in the kitchen.

she even made a movie

 

and there's "best stripes", being used again!

a good gray day

 

it's another gray day in san francisco 

so I've decided to make it a good gray day 

by posting my favorite new grays. 

although I have to say, 

even these look better on a sunny day. 

:)

slate on oatmeal linen, here.

harvest time

a friend of mine gave a friend of hers 

a tea towel, and he didn't want to use it. 

she insisted, and here you go. 

it's harvest time 

with live love eat.

thanks for sharing, katie.

bakers love BAKE

bakers love BAKE 

and we love seeing our tea towels 

out there in the world, 

being used. 

michelle lee, thanks for sharing. 

(if only you could share the baked goods! :)

ny gift show

a glimpse of our booth at the

ny gift show.

 

we're back in sf 

ready to fill new orders,

introduce the fall designs,

update the website,

12 ways to use a tea towel

 check it out. 

our first video.

just one-and-a-half visual minutes 

of

12 ways to use a tea towel 

use cloth, not paper :)

with very special thanks to 

christina schmidhofer

and to

benito taylor, for his music.

haven's kitchen

haven's kitchen 

will open later this year in a 

carriage house two blocks away from the Union Square Greenmarket 

in Manhattan. 

but they're already equipped with some stunning aprons. 

a preview into fall 2011

a preview into fall 2011 

we're hard at work on the new fall line:

all new 100% linen in oyster white and oatmeal,

sack cloth,

something we're calling art squares,

new patterns and wordplay everywhere. 

studiopatró on jamie oliver's food revolution

3 teams of high school students in LA 

competed on jamie oliver's food revolution.

studiopatro tea towels were there to help 

clean, wipe and dry.

these kids rock. 

watch episode 6 of season 2 here

LA bound for dwell on design

off to los angeles for 

dwell on design 

with the remodelista local market 

friday, saturday, sunday 

are you in LA? come see us

welcome patina

PATINA 

a private shop of fukuoka 

is stocking studiopatro tea towels

  :)

 

gluten free simplicity

simplicity

and keeping it simple, keeping it fresh 

from

a gluten free blog dedicated to food, family, friends, 

and time in the kitchen. 

lissa's recipe for peanut butter marbled brownies

here

gifting with tea towels

 

how to gift a studiopatro tea towel 

check out the indigo blog 

from canada

editor ashley minnings came up with 

my favorite new use of a tea towel: 

waving in front of the smoke detector 

(hey, it happens).