Planet Friendly Linen Towels

A towel …

is a towel…

is a towel…

unless it’s a goodlinens towel!

Welcome To goodlinens

From their manufacture to the way they invite reuse, we happily exhausted ourselves designing top quality towels that tread lightly on the planet.

goodlinens is committed to delivering practical luxury.  Our 100% linen towels will enhance your daily rituals.  They feel luxurious.  Absorbent, wonderfully textured and lightly exfoliating, they improve with use. Our towels are well-behaved, air-drying quickly, maximizing storage space, soiling less readily and spending less time in the dryer than cotton terry.

Linen has become a generic term for nearly anything that’s found in a linen closet, from cotton sheets and towels, to polyester tablecloths. Real linen, however, is woven from the cellulose fibers found inside the stalk of the flax plant.  Once the fibers are separated from the woody stalk, they are spun into yarns and then woven into fabric.  Each of these steps is labor intensive, but produces a fabric that is time tested (for 35,000 years, by some accounts!), durable and beautiful.

goodlinens towels are woven and hemmed in Lithuania, a country long known for its high-quality linen production.  We’re often asked why our towels are not USA made.  The simple answer:  US commercial production of linen from the flax plant ended in the 1800’s, when the invention of the cotton gin created an inexpensive alternative to linen.  Weaving and hemming in the same European factory makes the greenest sense to us.

Linen dries quickly, avoiding the bacteria build-up that can cause smelliness.  Hang the towel after using, and it will stay fresh for use after use.  Toss it in the wash when it’s time to do laundry, and it washes and dries alongside the rest of the clothes – no need for extra quarters for the dryer.

The towel retains its looks, too.  Inherently dirt-resistant linen yarns in their naturally occurring colors won’t show dirt like other towels.

Why Use A goodlinens Towel?

100% Linen

Derived from the inner layers of the stem of the flax plant, linen fibers are long and durable, stronger wet than dry, and stronger than cotton.

Fast Drying

If you like the idea of a towel that stays fresh and ready for reuse, highly air-permeable 100% linen is for you.  Air-dries or machine-dries far more quickly than cotton terry.

Space Saving

Prepare to have more space in your linen closet. Our 100% linen towels, though highly textured, consume far less storage space, as well as washer and dryer space, than traditional terry towels.

Exfoliating

Imagine using a towel that provides a delightfully exfoliating experience for your whole body. goodlinens towels do that.

Unbleached / Undyed

At least 90% of the yarns that make up our towels are unbleached and undyed. The other 10% of yarns that create our stripes? Whenever possible, we use reactive dyes that don’t require pre-bleaching.

Absorbent

Linen is highly absorbent, quickly wicking moisture away from the body.

Anti-Bacterial

Besides being inherently bacteria-resistant, linen yarns dry quickly, reducing the likelihood of having foul-smelling towels.

Better With Age

Our 100% linen towels become friendlier with use, softening and taking on character. We think you’ll grow attached to them.

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