* Learn to stretch them like paintings and hang them on your wall or use Magnart - a reusable magnetic hanging
system for unframed art - go to www.magnart.com* Use one to cover your picnic basket, and organise a date that will change your life. You'll thank us for it.
* Hang one over your oven and enter the controversial world of installation art.
* Give them as a gift to someone you love, even your Nanna will dig them.
* Buy them as a souvenir of your experience, anywhere in the world, even if you haven't been there yet.
* Buy them to promote Australian art and send them to friends overseas.
* Start your third drawer down collection. All tea towels should be kept in the Third Drawer Down®
of your kitchen. Even Martha Stewart members agree this is the universal drawer for tea towels.* Sew them onto a tee shirt... much cooler than buying a tee shirt already printed.
* Don't do anything with them... just leave them packaged as a collector's item. They'll sell for a fortune in
a few years.* Make them into curtains or a cushion.
* Use them as part of a table setting to get your guests discussing art and it's place in everyday life.
* Hang them on the line and have the most sassy back yard in town.
* Dry your dishes with them (boring!!)
* Get someone else to dry your dishes with them (now you're talking)
* Tell your friends about them. Tell us what you think.
* Have Fun!!!
THIRD DRAWER DOWN® tea towel (ironed!)
* one pair of 16 inch stretcher bars
* one pair of 24 inch stretcher bars
* fasteners; either a staple gun or thumbtacks
* 21 x 31 inch piece of plain white fabric
1) Slide mitered edges of four stretcher bars together. Adjust frame
until the corners are square. Staple each stretcher bar corner so that
they don't move.
2) Place white fabric over the front of the frame. (the front is the side that slopes slightly inwards). Hold as tightly as possible for good tension, and staple once on the back of the frame in the center of each side. Work outward from each of these centers, stretching evenly by moving from side to side and from top to bottom. Add a staple or two on the left and right of center, then do the opposite side to maintain an even tension. Keep going till you are about 5cm from corners.
3) When you reach corners, fold and tuck the fabric under itself, to create a flat front and neat corner. Keeping a hold of the fabric, tighten until all creases are out and staple to secure.
4) Lay your THIRD DRAWER DOWN® tea towel face down and repeat steps (2) and (3).
5) Secure some picture hanging wire or strong string across the back of of the frame and hang it up wherever you feel like it.
If all this seems too hard, just take your THIRD DRAWER DOWN® TeaTowel to your local artist supplies store, and they can do it for you!
WHERE DO YOU KEEP YOURS?