Missouri Dish Towel by Catstudio
This original design celebrates the State of Missouri from Elephant Rocks to Kansas City to Jefferson City to the Ozarks!!!
The design is silk-screened, then framed with a hand embroidered border on a 100% cotton dish towel/hand towel/guest towel/bar towel. Three stripes down both sides and hand dyed rick-rack at the top and bottom add a charming vintage touch. Delightfully presented in a fab organdy re-usable pouch!
Fun Facts:
This original design celebrates the State of Missouri from Elephant Rocks to Kansas City to Jefferson City to the Ozarks!!!
The design is silk-screened, then framed with a hand embroidered border on a 100% cotton dish towel/hand towel/guest towel/bar towel. Three stripes down both sides and hand dyed rick-rack at the top and bottom add a charming vintage touch. Delightfully presented in a fab organdy re-usable pouch!
- 100% Cotton
- Machine wash cold and line dry
- Packaged in organdy pouch
- Measures 20" x 29"
Fun Facts:
- Kansas City is home to Russell Stover Candies which is the largest maker of boxed chocolates in the world (established in 1932).
- Walt Disney opened an animation studio in Kansas City called 'Laugh-O-Gram Studios.' It is said that he fed a small mouse living in the building which inspired his character of Mickey Mouse.
- Iced Tea and the Waffle Cone were first served to visitors at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904.
- Missouri's most profitable crop is the soybean.
- MIssouri is known as 'the cave state' as there are more than 6,000 known caves here.
- The Gateway Arch in St. Louis is America's tallest man-made national monument at 630 feet wide and 630 feet tall.
- Ozark National Scenic Riverways system contains 'Big Spring' the nation's largest single-outlet spring. Big Spring gushes 278 million gallons daily.
- The largest beer producer in America is the Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis.
- The famous outlaw Jesse James and his brother were from Kearney, Missouri. The two James brothers robbed trains and banks throughout the US for 15 years until a heafty price on Jesse's head led to his premature death at the hands of a St. Joseph resident.
- Kansas City is known for barbeque. Henry Perry started selling his smoked meats at a stand in the city in 1908. Missourians are said to consume more barbeque sauce than any other state's residents.
- Famous author Mark Twain (born Samuel Clemens) was raised in Missouri. His boyhood home is now a historic museum (Hannibal, MO).
- Size:
- 20"x29"
- color:
- Multi
- material:
- Cotton
- features:
- Hand Crafted