Would you please tell me how to make white tea towels?

I would like to make my SIL some nice, sturdy, absorbent ones for a gift. (We used to use unneeded diapers, but today's diapers won't work LOL.)

What type/brand cotton, size, etc .?

Thank you very much,
Terry

I have used bleached muslin, and just select it by "feel"...(stroking the fabric)...Yes, this one feels right!! :-)

that's my method also. :)

how to make:
http://www.ehow.com/how_4780282_make-tea-towels.html

Great link. Thanks.

Unbleached muslin hemmed all the way around makes a very absorbent tea towel. They will embroider nicely also on your machine; however, the ones I have made from muslin wrinkle badly and I have to iron them each time they are laundered. I still prefer them, but when I give tea towels as gifts I buy ready made tea towels at Walmart and embroider those. I don't have any DILs who will iron a tea towel.

Our Joanns used to sell toweling in the home decor deptartment.

Around here Walmart sells some already hemmed. They are about 5 towels in the package for around $6.00. They are found around the other kitchen towels, etc.

JoAnn's in OKC had some nice toweling material when I was there today. It is in the back, past the flannel.

Walmart or target sells them. I just decorate them!

I looked at some in Walmart earlier this year. The packages
were 4 or 5 towels and had a wide paper band around them.
I finally gotone wiggled around where I could get my finger
under one thickness of towel. They were very, very thin.
I order from Hersshners. I bought some a couple months ago
and they are very nice, just as they have been for 40 years.
They call them "feed sack towels".