Dish towels that work - What's New? - Brief Article

USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), May, 2003

Few things are as frustrating after doing the dishes as trying to dry them with a towel that fails to accomplish its one real purpose--drying dishes. Some of the culprits are made from nonabsorbent fabrics that tend to become sodden so quickly that they leave you trying to achieve dryness from dampness, which simply doesn't work. It has taken a small general store-type operation to come up with a better idea--one more than a century or two old!

The Willey's Store, Inc., Greensboro, Vt., sells dish towels made from the same type of flour sack material our ancestors used, once they finished the five or 10 pounds of flour that were in the bag in the heyday of home baking. The towels are superabsorbent, come clean without falling apart after numerous washings, even when they're heavily bleached, and, most important, make dishes and glassware dry.

Jiffy Old Fashioned Flour Sack Towels are $28.50 a dozen from Willey's. Call 1-877-945-5397 to order.