Why do hotel towels have those horizontal stripes near the edges? The real reason behind that familiar design.

Why do hotel towels have those horizontal stripes near the edges? The real reason behind that familiar design.

Walk into almost any hotel bathroom and there is one small detail you are likely to notice on the towels. Whether they are fluffy white bath towels, hand towels or face towels, many of them have one or more horizontal stripes woven into them, usually close to the edges.