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Traditional Bath Towel – Cream | |
 |  $42.99 
Product Code: PA321700JH921 Producer / Artist: Eğin TekstilDimensions: L67" W 39.5"  In stock; usually ships out in 1 business day. Please enter quantity: | ||||||||||||||||
| Material: Cotton. Washing Instructions:: You can machine wash this cotton towel in 95 degree water (40 degrees celsius) or cooler. | |||||||||||||||||
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Traditional Bath Towel
 | $20.99
Product Code: PA315205LM546 Material: Silk & Cotton Dimensions: L~67" W~37" In stock; usually ships out in 1 business day. Please enter quantity: | ||||||||||||||||
| This is a traditional bath towel worn in baths. | |||||||||||||||||
The Turkish towel is essentially a bath towel measuring approximately 90cm x 110cm. Made of cotton or linen originally, later and especially in the 18th century, it was constructed with a looped pile section in the center.
It was a very important part of Turkish social life and continues to be so, but originally it was meant for ceremonial bath for a bride before her wedding and for important occasions later in life. The Turkish `hamams` too have an undeniable relationship with these towels. For a complete set of towels were available and is still available which consisted of different towels for the shoulder, hips and head. This elaborate arrangement was made keeping the special Turkish baths in mind.
The towel would still have been the drab piece of bath accessory if the Ottomans did not intercede. They brought style, design and fancy weaving to the towels with the help of their well-honed carpet weaving skills in the 17th century. Their towel was different in the sense that their 2/2-twill weave had extra-warp loop pile. It actually means that apart from the warp and weft of any other woven cloth their towel also had pile or loops of thread standing up from the rudimentary cloth.
The towels that we use all over the world actually were first woven in modern day Bursa in the 18th century. Weavers invented different techniques for these towels and the towels known as `havly` at the beginning are now known as `havlu`, which is actually the Turkish word for towels. The specialty and much of the fame of these towels naturally rest on the fact that these towels were hand woven, which limited their manufacturing to 3-4 towels a day.
As they say the discovery of the Silk Route was one of the most lucrative discoveries made by the West, without its discovery much of the Eastern wealth would remain unknown to the West for a long time. The credit of finding the Turkish towels goes back to Henry Christy who first took this extraordinary loop pile fabric with him to England in 1840. In around 1851, his brother Richard found out a way to reproduce these materials by the help of machines and thus made the towel. Greatly liked by Queen Victoria, Christy towels have maintained its popularity till date.
