In the old days every miner had one of these in his bag – a cloth to dry himself off with a special black pattern to hide the smears of coal dust. Typically, this would be a criss-cross grey-black diamond pattern. This miner’s cloth can still be found today as a washing-up cloth, but in a blue pattern. We’ve now decided to revive the original greyblack version, which we’ve had specially made for us by a German firm. It has a red striped border to relieve the grey, and is of good quality, firm, hard-wearing half-linen.