Rubber Stamp Tea Towel

With few copyright protections, Tom of Finland’s images were frequently pirated. In response, the artist established the Tom of Finland Company with Durk Dehner in 1979 to protect his rights and publish his work, producing a wide range of associated merchandise, including t-shirts, rubber stamps and even sex toys. This cotton twill tea towel featuring a magazine advert for mail-order rubber stamps by Tom of Finland has been made exclusively for House of Voltaire to coincide with Studio Voltaire’s major exhibition ‘Beryl Cook / Tom of Finland’, bringing together the work of these two cultural icons for the very first time.