Tiger Beach towel

Spread out on the sand, a tiger beach towel gives the animal more room than almost any other accessory: a full length of fabric where a face, a coat or a roar can be printed at a scale that reads from across the beach. The towels in this collection take three different routes, from a glowing painted portrait to an unbroken sweep of stripes and a round towel with a black and white tiger in mid roar.

Three ways to print a tiger beach towel

The Tiger Print Beach Towel is the most colorful of the group. Its Style option is called Tiger art, and the photo shows why: a tiger's head fills almost the whole length of the towel, painted in electric teal, orange, violet and pink against a deep navy ground, with a soft pink nose and fine pale whiskers. The head is turned a little to one side, so the eyes look off past the edge of the towel rather than straight ahead, which gives the design a calm, watchful mood.

The Tiger Striped Beach Towel goes the other way and leaves the face out entirely. Its Style option, Tiger Stripes, describes it exactly: the whole surface is a close view of tiger fur, warm orange and gold with long black stripes running across it, so the towel looks like a length of the coat itself. With no top or bottom to the pattern, it reads the same whichever way it is laid down.

The White Tiger Towel takes a different shape altogether. Instead of a rectangle it is a circle, finished with a fringe all the way around the edge, and its picture is a black and white photograph of a tiger in profile with its jaws thrown wide open, long fangs, the tongue showing and every whisker sharp against a pale background. The head and its open jaws fill most of the circle, which makes it the most dramatic design of the three.

Rectangle or circle

The two rectangular towels share a single size, listed in their options as ONE SIZE - 30"x60", the classic proportions of a beach towel. On both, the image runs right out to the edges, so the stripes or the painted face cover the full surface with no border around them. The White Tiger Towel comes in one version, listed under the color White tiger, and its round outline and fringe give it a looser, more relaxed look, whether it lies flat on the sand or hangs over the back of a deck chair.

Bold color or black and white

The three towels split neatly by mood. The Tiger Print Beach Towel is all saturated color and stands out against pale sand from a long way off. The Tiger Striped Beach Towel keeps to the animal's own palette of orange, gold and black, and sits easily next to striped swimwear or a tiger print bag. The White Tiger Towel drops color altogether: its grayscale photograph of an open-mouthed tiger is the most graphic of the set and stands apart from the brighter towels on a crowded beach.

Why a tiger belongs at the water's edge

A tiger by the sea is less of a stretch than it sounds. Unlike most cats, tigers are strong swimmers that often seek out water, cooling off in rivers and pools on hot days and crossing wide channels when they need to. In the Sundarbans, the mangrove delta shared by India and Bangladesh, tigers regularly swim from one island to the next. Our article answering the question can tigers swim looks at how and why they take to the water so readily, which makes it a fitting read for a day at the beach.

Matching swimwear and bags for the sand

A tiger beach towel is usually one part of a larger beach kit. Our tiger bikini collection brings the stripes to swimwear, with bikinis in blue, pink and yellow tiger stripe styles, among them a V-neck design and a separate bikini top. The Tiger Striped Beach Towel pairs especially well with them, since it carries the same pattern in its warmer, classic colors.

For the walk down to the water, a tiger backpack keeps the theme going, with a range that runs from 3D tiger head designs to school bags and a plush tiger head backpack. For smaller things like coins and keys, a tiger purse does the same job on a smaller scale: the collection includes coin purses, a cosmetic purse with a tiger logo, a tiger print purse and single-strap designs, one of them in tiger stripes.

After the beach

A large printed towel rarely spends the whole year folded in a bag. The same designs work at the pool, on a picnic lawn or over the back of a lounge chair, and the round White Tiger Towel in particular can double as a throw or a wall hanging, where its circle and fringe frame the black and white photograph like a picture. In the bathroom, a tiger shower curtain carries the animal onto an even larger surface, with designs that include a white tiger, a tiger in water and a version made for kids.

Part of a wider tiger range

The tiger beach towel is one corner of our tiger accessories collection, which also gathers keychains, phone cases, mugs, mouse pads, blankets, masks and patches, all built around the same animal. Together with a towel, several of them make an easy summer gift, from a phone case to a keychain that rides along on the beach bag.

A few practical answers

What size is a tiger beach towel here?

The Tiger Print Beach Towel and the Tiger Striped Beach Towel are both listed in one size, 30"x60". The White Tiger Towel is a round design with a fringed edge.

Do the towels come in other designs?

Each towel is offered in a single design, the one shown in its photos: Tiger art for the painted face, Tiger Stripes for the coat pattern and White tiger for the round towel with the roaring head.

Which towel shows the whole tiger face?

The Tiger Print Beach Towel shows the whole face in color, and the White Tiger Towel shows a roaring head in profile. The Tiger Striped Beach Towel shows only the striped coat, with no face at all.