Placement Rules and Design Ideas for Placing a Monogram on a Bath Towel

Sharing your bath towel may not be a good idea as it increases your chances of catching whatever contagious disease someone else is suffering from. Monogrammed towels are ideal for personal use in large homes, in those places there is a great chance that your towel will get mixed up with others. Also, it would be a good idea to gift a monogrammed bath towel to the newlywed couple.

To order your monogrammed bath towel you can contact a department store that provides this service or you can even order online. If you are an expert embroiderer, you can monogram bath towels yourself. Following the information on the design and placement of a monogram on your towel would make your job much easier.

• For a standard bath towel, the height of the monogram letters should be large, ie around 3″ to 4″. If your bath towel does not have a side band, then the monogram is usually placed 4″ above the hem. Conversely, if your towel does have a band, it would be perfect to place the monogram 2″ above the band.
• The monogram is usually applied 2″ above the hem of the hand towel if it is unbanded and if the hand towel is banded, place the monogram 1.5″ above the band. The alphabet size for this monogram should be no more than 2″ tall.
• Use a small alphabet size around 1″ to 1.5″ tall while monogramming from a wash cloth. For a banded wipe, apply the monogram 1″ above the band and if the wipe does not have a band, place it 1.5 inches above the hem.
• If you plan to gift a monogrammed bath towel to a married couple who share the same last name, opt for a three-letter monogram. This three-letter monogram can have the husband’s initial on the left, the wife’s initial on the right, and the first letter of the common last name in the middle. This is the conventional placement, but if you wish, you can also swap the placement of the initials of the husband and wife, which is also fine.
• If you want to gift a monogrammed towel to a newlywed couple, have them monogrammed “Him” and “Her.”
• People who do not have a middle name generally opt for a two-letter monogram with initials with the first initial on the left and the second on the right. It is essential to have both letters the same size.
• The monogram of a person who has a middle name with an apostrophe usually consists of three letters; the height of the middle letter is kept a bit longer than the other two side letters. Or, you can also choose to place the middle letter on the right side.
• Children’s bath towels are usually monogrammed with their name or nickname.
• It would be a good idea to get bath towels monogrammed with the word “Guest” for towels you want to keep exclusively for your guests.