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In Tunisia hammam towels are called foutas. Striped Fouta Towels are traditionally offered at Tunisian bathhouses.
Foutas can be used as towels, shawls, or wraps for the pool, beach, sauna, or park, as throws on a chair, and as tablecloths. The warm color of the fouta used as a tablecloth is the perfect accent for a summertime lunch on the porch. The soft texture adds sophistication to a picnic in the park, and the geometric patterns enliven your experience at the pool or gallivanting on the beach.
Foutas will bring sophistication and luxury to any jaunt in the sun or your indoor leisure and activities.
It's not just a towel.... Fouta is woven art!
What is Fouta?
The Fouta is originally a rectangular shaped hand-woven cloth used as a towel. It is one of the first garments of humankind dating back to the Anatolian Culture and revisited and designed into a modernized form.
The tightly woven loom work gives the Fouta a high level of absorbency and durability. Made in the Traditional way, Tunisian men handle the heavy loom work while the women finish the intricate fringe work to create these luxurious towels.
Thanks to its extraordinary durability and versatility, the Fouta has emerged as the new generation of bath, beach and pool towels here in America and all over Europe! Eco friendly and tight woven, the more you wash it the softer and more absorbent it gets. Though many have tried, the time honored tradition of looming has proven impossible to duplicate...
Refinement and elegance defines our selection of foutas.
History...
The history of this lightweight piece of fringed cloth was pioneered by the ancient Turks was traditionally used as a towel after a bath or hammam. Tunisia is an origin place for past empires that reign this part of Africa. As such the “Roman bath” became an integral part of Tunisian life and with that came the birth of the Fouta.
Fouta was widespread and used throughout the household and beyond. Striped Fouta towel is traditionally offered at Tunisian Bathrooms.
The French were so attracted with it and they acknowledged and appreciated its multipurpose uses as a lifestyle towel. From the hammams of North Africa you are now able to see the Fouta in the spas, beaches, pools of France and across The Mediterranean and Europe. French fashion mogul brought the fouta to light through multiple appearances in fashion shows and in vitrines of multiple international fashion houses like Hermes.
Tunisia confesses that they are passionate scholars’ manufacturers of this top-notch textile which is driven by compulsion touch.
Where to use foutas?
Fouta can be used as; Pareo, Sarong, Batik, Hammam towel, Bath towel, Guest towel, beach towel, Curtain, Tablecloth, sofa cover, Shawl, Beach towel...
Fouta can substitute classic towels in Spa saloons, Fitness centers, Yoga centers, hotels, pools, restaurants...