Timber Cotton Apron

Make sure that you don’t miss these amazing deals at Ulster Weavers.com!

We’re offering you fantastic clearance offers with huge reductions on selected items.

With massive special offers and prices dropped on our kitchen textile and homeware ranges you are sure to pick up a bargain or two via our dedicated online store.

As well as the seasonal Christmas ranges and full current lines, you can find brilliant savings available to buy today.

Ranging from oven gloves, gauntlets, cotton aprons, tea towels, pot mitts, tea cosies, shoulder and PVC bags and many more homeware items, you are sure to find a few bits and pieces to spice up your home for Christmas that suits your style and taste.

Or why not take advantage of the perfect opportunity to grab a few last-minute Christmas presents for your family and friends.

With prices as low as £2.49 you would be mad to miss out these fantastic deals and you’ll still have some money left over in your pocket!

And we’ve got different discounted kitchen textiles, PVC & canvas bags every week so bookmark the webpage and snatch up the offers while stocks last.

Happy Christmas Waffle Weave Tea Towel

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So your baby has gone to university. You’ve packed them off with all their clothes, stocked their fridge with plenty of food and left them a bit of money to keep them in pocket until the end of the month when you know you’ll be getting a phone call asking for a top up as the funds are running low.

However, you have realised that since their departure, your washing basket is pretty empty, you have food in the fridge when you get home from work and you can actually watch the programmes you want to watch each night rather than the Play Station or Sweet Sixteen. Fantastic!

Despite all this free time on your hands you will still worry about your little one. Whether they are eating okay, getting enough sleep or arriving at their lectures on time rather than overlying in bed.

And when it comes to cooking, well that’s another kettle of fish, as far as your concerned they can’t even boil an egg. While we are in no way trying to worry you, we thought we would share some funny student cooking disasters that we have heard and discovered from around the UK.

Boiling a Potato

What is it about potatoes? There are a million and one simple ways to cut and peel them, but trying to actually get your child to do it is near enough impossible. To give you an idea of the problems students are facing with potatoes, one girl didn’t know how to boil a potato so she just put it whole in the pan and it boiled dry three times; taking it out of the pan, scraping off the burnt bits and then trying it again!

Metal in the microwave

Readymade meals are the way forward for many students and microwaves are a god sent. However, for some reason they seem to think anything can be cooked in the microwave, including metal. One kid put a whole slab of butter in the microwave still in its wrapper and started a fire in the kitchen.

Minstrels in the oven

Yes believe it or not but this is a true experience. One guy decided to test out a trick he’d seen on television with chocolate Minstrels. Popped them in the oven to melt just the chocolate inside the Minstrel, disappeared to check his emails, totally forgot about them and set the oven on fire. The Minstrels came like rock solid charcoal. Tip: Never experiment with fire!

Orange on the cornflakes

This student was still clearly half asleep as they poured a whole load of orange juice over their breakfast cereal, and only realised after they experienced the tangy taste in their mouth.

Soup in the tin

This super lazy student couldn’t be bothered with the fact that when you eat you have to wash up, so would boil his soup in a pan of water while still in the tin. One day, he forgot about the soup leaving the water to boil away and the can exploded leaving soup all over the ceiling and work surfaces.

If all else fails in the cooking department we think that dinner reservations and take outs are the way forward for a while, until the money runs out and beans on toast are the ideal breakfast/lunch/dinner for any student to live on.

Olive Sandwiches tea towel by Ulster Weavers

To make sure that your big kid is fully prepared with all the cutlery, crockery and kitchen textiles, make sure that you visit Ulsterweavers.com. The home textiles website has some fantastic accessories for the kitchen to choose from, including aprons, tea towels, tea cosies, oven gloves and much more. This adorable Olive Sandwiches tea towel design from Ulster Weavers certainly says it all for the student life!

Britain was actually the first country to coin the ‘tea towel.’ In the 18th Century (1870 approx) Great Britain’s tea towel was a special linen drying cloth that the lady of the house would use to dry expensive pieces of China.

With its delicate weave, linen was considered the fabric of choice as it would not scratch pieces of fine China or glasses. During the 18th Century, British servants were charged with hand hemming and hand embroidering the tea towels. Each tea towel was embroidered with care with many of the tea towels becoming the subject of family heirlooms.

Linen was considered the best use of soft fabric; however it did require a lot of handheld care. Water temperatures could not be that warm (between 50-90) so all linen had to be hung out to dry from the sunlight. When the tea towel was just a bit damp, it needed to be ironed on the reverse side.

It is highly known that British people love their tea and pride themselves on how they serve it. At tea parties the table was amazingly dressed with the finest of linens and the most beautiful crystals and China, complete with matching napkins and tea towels.

Dry and clean tea towels were often used as a tea cosy (the tea towel was wrapped around the teapot in insulate and keep the pot warm), as well as a basket warmer. The tea towel was wrapped around or laid on top of a serving basket or bowl to keep fresh tea scones, tea cakes or muffins hot.

Ireland also is in line with the British when it comes to the tea towel and drinking cups of tea. In fact, they serve and drink tea as much as they do in England. 1794 was the year of yarn prohibition which turned Ireland like the British, to become excellent weavers with fine weaving a long and time honoured tradition.

Tea towels were massed produced by the Industrial Revolution with companies nowadays creating tea towels and other kitchen textile products displaying a variation of pictures, images, trends and styles etc.

 Tea towels are also seen as wall hangings or in encased frames as well as pictures on a wall.

Tea towel calendars are an adorable accessory to add to your home or office or as a gift to your family and friends. Not

Charlotte 2011 Calendar Linen Tea Towel

 only is it a decorative piece of art that you can hang up, it is also a functional calendar that can be used all year long.

There are many home interior stores that sell decorative tea towel calendars, however why not consider adding that personal touch by making one of your own? It isn’t hard to do and could potentially save you a bit of money if you decide to make a few to hand out as gifts to your friends and family this Christmas.

Things you will need

1. Straight Pins
2. Needle and Thread
3. Flour Sack Towel (tea towel)
4. Iron
5. ¼ inch dowel cut to 18 inches long
6. Two iron-on transfer sheets for use in a printer
7. String

• Get your tea towel and fold the top down to create a 1-inch hem. Pin it in place with straight pins.
• With your needle and thread sew along the pinned hem. Don’t sew the sides too close to the hem. Each of the open sides is used to slide the dowel through so you can hang your tea towel at the end.
• Iron the tea towel on a low setting so that it is completely smooth.
• Using your computer’s word processing software design your own calendar or alternatively search online for a printable calendar.
• With your printable iron-on transfer sheets, place them into the printer, and then print the design that you have chosen for your calendar.
• From here, place the printed design face down onto the tea towel. Run over the design with your iron which should still be on a low heat. Press firmly with the iron and then hold the fabric and paper with your other hand to keep the paper from moving and smudging the design.
  

  Birdsong 2011 Calendar Linen Tea Towel by Ulster Weavers

• With the remaining three sides of the tea towel, hem them down with a needle and thread. If you like the tea towel and how it looks before it is hemmed then you don’t have do it at all.
• With the dowel rod, slide it through the hem that you created at the top of the tea towel.
• Get your string and tie it around an end of the dowel rod, and use the slack to hang the string over a tack or nail on your wall. And hey presto your calendar is complete.

If arts and crafts really aren’t your thing but fancy having a calendar tea towel in your home or office then why not head down to Ulster Weavers the online home textiles company that has a fantastic collection of 2011 tea towels that are sure to catch your eye.

When fresh cherries are on sale it’s a sure sign that summer is here.

Sitting out in the summer sun – although it doesn’t appear too often in the UK – drinking cherry juice, with your cherry pie, there is nothing more perfect that the delightful tasty fruit; and better still it is very good and healthy for you too.

There are thousands of cherry recipes that you could cook up this summer while the cherry season is still going strong, and we at Ulster Weavers have come up with a few tasty treats for you prepare for your family and friends or even for yourself!

Cherry Grilled Sweet Pepper Salad 

This beautiful and super healthy salad is perfect for those summer evenings when you are sat outside with a glass of wine enjoying the summer sun. The recipe is simple and easy to cook and won’t leave you feeling too guilty to have another glass of wine as this salad dish is fat free.

Cherry Pork Wrap 

If you are in need of some healthy and tasty finger food for your guests then these cherry pork wraps will do the trick. Easy to make and great as snack food for a social gathering or BBQ, your guests will be super impressed with your creative new take on finger food!

Surprise Cherry Bundles 

These adorable cherry bundles will go down a treat at any meal. The cute little desserts are delightful to look at, super tasty to eat and won’t leave your guests over stuffed as the surprise cherry bundle is simply full of cherries!

Cherry Margarita 

What perfect way to start the night than with a few cherry margaritas for everyone to enjoy. These super delicious fruity drinks will go down a treat with all your guests just make sure you don’t make it too strong as the tequila could send the night cherry mad!

If you are a lover of cherries then you need to take a look at the stunning cherry homeware range from

Cherry Linen tea towel from Ulster Weavers.com

 UlsterWeavers.com. Established in 1804, the Royal Horticultural Society is now the UK’s leading gardening charity dedicated to advancing horticulture and promoting good gardening – The society’s aim is to promote gardening the world over. Since the foundation of the ‘RHS’ members have undertaken studies of domestic and exotic plant life. These studies have resulted in an enormous archive of detailed drawings showing every sort of plant and flower. Ulster Weavers take these detailed drawings and transfer them onto textiles which appeal to plant, garden and flower enthusiasts everywhere. 

The stunning Cherries collection features a muff tea cosy, PVC small, medium, large and shoulder bag, linen tea towel, pot mitt, double oven glove, PVC and cotton apron, tea cosy and gauntlet.

To view the Cherries Collection visit the UlsterWeavers.com site today.

Limited edition 'Two Years to Go' tea towel with Ulster Weavers

To mark the two year countdown to the London 2012 Games, Ulster Weavers, kitchen textiles licensee for this major sporting event, have launched a limited edition linen tea towel which went on sale on 27 July.

The 27 July 2010 is exactly two years until the official opening of the London 2012 Games and what better way to mark the occasion than with the ‘Two Years to Go’ limited edition tea towel that buyers can keep as memorabilia.

The linen tea towel will be retailed at just £7.50 and can be bought via UlsterWeavers.com

This is the first Ulster Weavers product launched for the London 2012 Games since the Company were awarded the licence in June this year.

The Ulster Weavers team of designers are currently creating a wide collection of London 2012 Games kitchen textiles which will go on sale in January 2011. Products will include tea towels, aprons, oven gloves, tea cosies and textile bags.

To purchase your very own ‘Two Years to Go’ limit edition tea towel please visit UlsterWeavers.com today.