Gianneli Colours Orange and Blue Bath Towel

Orange and blue in vertical panels. The direction of this design is the reason to choose it, because a towel spends most of its life folded in half over a rail. A design built around a central image loses its middle to that fold. Vertical panels do not: whichever half is showing still reads as the whole idea.

Designed For How A Towel Is Actually Stored

• Folding does not destroy the composition. Panels running top to bottom survive being halved, where a centred motif disappears into the fold line.
• Both halves show the same thing. Hung either way round, the visible face carries the full alternation of orange and blue rather than one colour only.
• Vertical lines suit a hanging object. The eye follows the panels down the length of the towel, which is the direction it hangs.

The Specification

30 by 60 inches, or 76 by 152 cm, in a 52% cotton and 48% polyester blend at 10.6 oz per square yard. Printed on one face, plush cotton terry on the other, because sublimation dye bonds only to polyester while absorbency needs cotton.

Two Colours Means Two Ways To Hang It

Because the panels alternate, folding the towel at different points changes which colour dominates on the rail. It is the one design here with a choice built into it, and no extra cost for making that choice differently each time.

Orange And Blue In A Tiled Room

The blue sits comfortably against white and grey tiling; the orange is the note that lifts it. Together they give a bathroom a warm and a cool anchor at once, which a single-colour towel cannot do.

Practical Answers

Do the panels run the long way or the short way? The long way, down the 60 inch length, which is what makes the design survive being folded in half over a rail.

Will the fold line show as a mark over time? No. The colour is inside the fibre, so a habitual fold creases the cloth without wearing the print.

Is the reverse plain? Yes, plain cotton terry with no print, and that is the side to dry with.