Paris Towel

You've earned your stripes.

This is a middle-weight, pure cotton, twisted tassel fringed, high-quality weave in a beautiful, striped style. Its classic aesthetic makes this towel a perfect, versatile accessory for bath, beach, scarf, and travel.

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Features + Benefits

While the science and art of Turkish towels dates back to the 17th century, their quick-dry, high absorbency, and unparalleled weave makes them a modern day essential worldwide.

Our focus always includes versatility, utility and functionality. Originally used in Turkish baths (hammams), each of our towel designs has countless uses. Uses include but are not limited to the following: towel for bath, beach, pool, resort, cottage, boat, yoga, gym, travel, spa, massage, camping, hiking, festivals; table cloth; scarf, shawl, wrap, cover-up, meditation shawl, sarong, toga; end of bed throw, living room throw, picnic blanket, outdoor swing blanket, yoga blanket; baby swaddle, tapestry, lumbar support roll.

Ultra soft hand feel, luxurious texture, strong and durable.

Creates a vibe that is elegant, contemporary, stylish, modern, luxe, coastal. These towels work well in any setting, on their own, and with other towel types and towel styles. Our towels have versatility in aesthetic and design.

Quick-drying, highly-absorptive, durable. Useful in all seasons. Made to last.

Travel and storage friendly. Compact and lightweight. Roll up to fit easily in a closet, suitcase, gym bag, backpack, tote, etc. Can be used on the road for scarf, shawl, blanket, lumbar support, etc.

Easy gift as these towels look great with all decors. Gift to a friend, host, new parent, traveller, adventurer, homebody, for birthday, etc. Fun gift wrapping tip! --> Use a towel as wrapping paper for a gift to make the gift extra special and extra beautiful.

Easily used both indoors and outdoors. Repels sand and grass. Perfect portable picnic blanket and accessory.

Towels will get softer and more absorbent with use and proper care.

Made with 100% natural materials. Soft and gentle on the skin. Because they feel gentle and light on the skin, they're a great alternative scarf to scratchy wool scarves and wraps.

Ethically-sourced from traditional Turkish artisans.

Naturally antibacterial. No more musty smell. Will dry 30% faster than regular towels.

Turkish cotton has extra long fibers, making it longer lasting and more durable than regular cotton.

Hand-made twisted tassel fringe. Each tassel spun one by one.

Also known as "fouta" (the word for towels from Tunisia) or "pestemal" (the word for towel in Turkish).

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Artisan + Origin

Fairly-traded. Made by highly-skilled, independent Turkish artisans, with whom we work directly.

To learn more about their deeply-rooted traditions and exceptional designs, click here.

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Materials + Care

100% Turkish cotton

Before using your towel, we suggest to soak your towel over night in cold water and then hang it to dry. This encourages the fibres of the towel fabric to bloom which initiates their natural softening process and conditions the cotton fabric to be more adsorptive.

Machine wash or hand wash. Wash with like colors. Wash in cold water. Do not wash in hot water as hot water will cause shrinkage.

If possible and for best results, wash on delicate machine-wash; however, towel can also be washed on regular washing machine setting.

Hanging to dry is recommended over machine drying. If you need to machine dry, dry on low heat, but please note there may be some shrinkage after machine-drying.

After the first wash, please allow for some shrinkage for some styles of towels, however if cared for properly in cold water, the shrinkage should be only very minimal within a couple of inches on the length, and almost no shrinkage in the width.

Do not use bleach or fabric softeners.

No need to iron. Decrease wrinkles naturally using less energy with Pokoloko's Alpaca Dryer Balls.

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Size + Fit

75”L x 36.5”W with 2.75” twisted tassel fringe (190.5cm L x 92.5cm W with 7cm twisted tassel fringe)

Larger than a typical bath towel, generous size to fully wrap the body.

Given the artisanal make of our towels, please allow for slight natural variations in color, size, and weave with each unique piece; however, if there are differences present, these differences are not usually noticeable.

Middle weight: 400 grams, 250 gsm. Learn more about gsm here.

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FAQ's

There's so much to discover about the world of Pokoloko towels. For FAQs about Turkish towels click here.