Peter Rabbit Recycled Cotton Tea Towel

First there were lettuces, then french beans, and then radishes. Peter Rabbit’s meal is remembered across this recycled-cotton tea towel with the seriousness of a proper account, while Peter himself runs through the vegetables in his blue jacket.

Tiny vegetables are scattered over the natural-coloured cloth, with Peter placed amongst them beneath a pale ornamental frame. The effect is gentle and bookish, but the subject is plainly the same troublesome visit to the vegetable patch.

The recycled-cotton fabric has a reassuringly substantial feel for drying-up, folding with the kitchen linen, or hanging within reach between uses. Peter may have caused the difficulty in the garden; here, at least, he has been given something useful to do.

It is an especially fitting place for the scene. Lettuces and radishes have followed Peter from the garden into the kitchen, where the story can sit quietly among the cups, plates and ordinary jobs of the day.