A tea towel decorated with fish and shellfish – and bearing their names – is the sort of domestic object in the kitchen that proves to be highly useful while also being highly knowledgeable. It’s not a dish cloth; it’s a fish cloth … an Emma Bridgewater Fish Cloth Tea Towel, to be precise. Let’s face it: there’s something very indispensable about a tea towel that can both mop up a tomato ketchup spill and settle a family-table dispute about what, exactly, a langoustine looks like.