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I received these black dish towels for Christmas and love them. The black is a great look for either a modern or rustic kitchen, and really would work in any room in the house. You may want to wash them a few times for maximum softness and absorbency. I just wash them and hang them from the oven door handle and they dry very quickly on their own.

Since I also love linen for bath towels, I purchased the 30 x 60 towel for traveling. Although I’m very happy with my purchase, I would love to see the black towel offered in a slightly different size, of about 38 x 56 inches. Linen can also be used at home, of course. I like linen towels in general just as much as regular terrycloth cotton towels, and they help you dry off better, have to be washed less, and dry much quicker than traditional cotton towels. So in addition to all the other advantages of linen, I guess you could say they’re environmentally friendly.

When using pure linen as a travel towel, not only do you get a quick-drying towel but you don’t get the funky smell of microfiber. Plus it isn’t repulsive to touch (microfiber always grabs my skin like Velcro and to me, touching it is like nails on a chalkboard). It doesn’t take much room to pack, and really, it could be used as a scarf or as a blanket on a plane, not to mention a picnic cloth (another advantage over microfiber: linen doesn’t grab onto every little piece of dried grass, twig, etc.; just shake it out and go).

I do highly recommend these towels; not only is the black very attractive and the linen a nice quality, but the price is quite reasonable for 100 percent pure linen. I should mention that I have not had any issues at all with shedding from either the bath towel or the hand (dish) towels from this company.