Custom Towels with Your Logo

Towels are a promotional category that splits cleanly by use, and the split matters more than anything else about them. A beach towel is a piece of summer merchandise that gets unfolded in public. A golf or gym towel is a working tool that hangs off a bag all season. A rally towel is an event prop with a single day of life and enormous visual impact on that day. Buying one when you needed another is the most common mistake here.The selection covers full color beach towels, waffle and terry microfiber sports towels, golf towels with a grommet and hook, cooling towels, and kitchen and bar towels. For blankets and beach blankets, see Blankets.

Showing 136–180 of 526 resultsSorted by price: low to high

Showing 136–180 of 526 resultsSorted by price: low to high

Cotton or microfiber

Cotton terry absorbs more water and feels like a towel from home. Turkish and ring-spun cotton are the premium end. It is the right material for a beach towel or a bath towel where the experience matters, and the wrong one for anything that needs to dry quickly or pack small.

Microfiber absorbs fast, dries fast, and packs down to a fraction of the bulk. It is the standard for sports, golf, gym, and travel towels, and it is also what makes full color edge-to-edge printing possible. The trade-off is feel: microfiber is functional rather than plush.

Waffle weave is a middle path, textured microfiber that dries quickly while looking more like a traditional towel. It photographs well, which is why it dominates beach towel programs.

GSM, again

As with blankets, GSM tells you what you are buying. A beach towel in the 300 to 400 GSM range is a real towel. Below 300 it is thin, and the recipient will notice the first time they use it. Sports and rally towels are deliberately lighter, because the job is wiping sweat rather than drying a body, and a heavy rally towel is unpleasant to wave.

Print methods and why beach towels are different

Full color dye sublimation prints the entire surface and is what makes a beach towel a design object. It requires polyester or a poly-rich blend, which is why full color beach towels are microfiber rather than pure cotton. If you want both a cotton hand and full color, you are choosing between them, and most buyers underestimate how much they were expecting cotton.

Screen printing puts one or more spot colors on cotton terry and is the economical option at volume.

Embroidery on a corner is the finish for golf and country club towels and for anything positioned as a gift rather than merchandise.

The details that decide whether a towel gets used

On a golf towel, the grommet and hook are the entire product. Without them the towel goes in the bag and never comes out. Check that the grommet is metal and set into reinforced fabric rather than punched through a single layer.

On a sports towel, a carrying pouch or a snap is what keeps it attached to a gym bag.

On a cooling towel, the mechanism is evaporation, which means it works well in dry heat and much less well in humidity. If your audience is in a humid climate, set expectations accordingly rather than promising a cooling effect that the physics will not deliver.

Sizing and audiences

Beach towels are the summer item for resorts, cruise lines, universities, real estate agents in coastal markets, and any consumer brand with an outdoor season. Sports and rally towels belong to teams, stadiums, fitness studios, and race events, where the low unit cost lets you cover an entire crowd. Golf towels are the standard tournament item and one of the few branded golf products that gets used every round. Kitchen and bar towels are an underused option for restaurants, breweries, and home services, where the towel lives in the exact room the business wants to be remembered in. See related items in Home & Kitchen.