Manchester Engels Statue tea towel

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100% Organic Cotton
Made in the UK
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  • Sturdy half panama unbleached US cotton (48cm x 70cm)
  • Our special inks mean that colours last in the wash
  • Includes hanging loop
  • Designed and manufactured in the UK
  • Delivery with Royal Mail, free on orders over £35
  • 100-day money back guarantee if you change your mind

Friedrich Engels is best known along with Karl Marx as co-author of The Communist Manifesto (1848). He spent two decades in Manchester from 1842 and became quickly involved with radical publishing and journalism, and with the British Labour and Chartist movements. The horrific conditions he observed, endured by men, women and children in this city at the heart of industrial Europe, honed his revolutionary philosophy and helped forge works such as The Condition of the Working Class in England

But the city has never commemorated him – until the summer 2017 the British-born artist Phil Collins transported a 3.5 metre statue of Friedrich Engels, found in two pieces in a village in eastern Ukraine, through Europe to Britain on a flat-bed truck, to be restored and placed in Tony Wilson Place in Central Manchester, now its permanent home.

If Manchester is a meeting point of capitalism and resistance to capitalism - as its history of Chartism, the Suffragettes, the 1842 General Strike and the birth of the Vegetarian Society suggest - then it is high time its memorials, street names and statues reflected that. 

This stunning design is by artist Stephen Millership.

 

Half Panama unbleached organic cotton (heavy weight, textured finish). Stitched on all four sides. Includes hanging loop. Measures approximately 48cm x 70cm. Machine wash at 40 degrees centigrade max. We recommend that before you use your tea towel for the first time you wash it at least once to soften up the material and make it more absorbent for drying dishes. Please note size can vary slightly.

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  • 5
    great teatowels

    Posted by Elisa Samuels on 29th Oct 2021

    arrived promptly; great customer service and quality towel. colours stunning and dries well...