In-House Design

17 Mar, 2025

Designed In-House

We believe in creating beautiful products for our customers, focusing on quality natural fabrics, comfort, enduring style and considered design. The designs for our small batch collections are always inspired by nature, whether it’s a colour palette, a floral or botanical design or a simple motif.

Our collections are designed with love in NZ and made exclusively for Wallace Cotton. Our talented in-house textile designers create unique designs for our collections and work with our production team to bring them to life for our customers.

Read on to discover our latest limited-edition range of pure linen tea towels featuring unique designs created by our in-house textile team.

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Meet our Textile Designers

Our designs are created by our talented in-house textile designers. From painting and drawing to lino cutting and digital illustrations, they create the beautiful unique designs for our bed linen, homeware and sleepwear collections.

“Every day can bring a different creative task, from hand-painting large flowers, to sketching cute animals for a cot range, creating designs for embroidery, lining up stripe or check patterns, choosing colours for plain dyed items, or designing packaging for a fragrance range” – Zoe, Senior Textile Designer

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Linen Tea Towels

Our linen tea towels are crafted from certified European flax linen fibre. European Flax certification is the guarantee of traceability for premium linen fibre grown in Europe. Linen is a natural and sustainable fibre, cultivated without artificial irrigation and is GMO free.

Linen tea towels are durable, offer excellent absorbency and are ideal for drying glassware. They are also perfect for wrapping your sourdough loaf in to keep fresh, for adding unique style to your kitchen and make for beautiful gifting.

Made in small, sustainable batches, we only produce 300 of each linen tea towel design, to offer limited-edition, collectible little pieces of unique art for your kitchen.

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Honeybee Linen Tea Towel

Our Honeybee Linen Tea Towel features our most-loved Wallace Cotton bee motif. Hand-painted in-house, our bee design celebrates Mother Nature’s busiest little helper and from 2019 onwards, has regularly featured in our collections. A simple yet classic design, our Wallace Cotton bee has created a dedicated and passionate following.

Our limited-edition Honeybee Linen Tea Towel showcases our hand-painted bee motif surrounded by hand-painted floral motifs printed on natural toned pure linen. Beautiful for your kitchen and for gifting.

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Butterfly Linen Tea Towel

Our Butterfly Linen Tea Towel features vintage inspired hand-painted butterflies in muted hues on natural toned pure linen. This limited-edition design was hand-painted in-house by our textile designers and printed onto certified European linen. Beautiful, durable and giftable, our Butterfly Linen Tea Towel will add a hint of pretty nature to your kitchen styling.

Gift Tip: wrap a bottle of wine in a linen tea towel for two gifts in one.

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