RKF Luxury Linen, a French premium linen supplier for spas, has created Fouta, a new range of Hammam towels inspired by traditional Mediterranean cloth.

Fouta, also spelled Futa, is a lightweight piece of patterned fabric that has been used in traditional dress in the Mediterranean and Middle East for centuries.

More recently fouta have been used as towels in Hammams. RKF's luxe version are made from 100 per cent cotton and are incredibly absorbent thanks to a sponge underside.

The towels are custom-created on a client-by-client basis, with existing clients including Al Manara, a Luxury Collection Resort in Saraya Aqaba, Jordan and Le Palace at the Grand Hotel Kempinski in Geneva, Switzerland.

Riadh Bouaziz, chairmain and CEO of the RKF Group, says: "RKF is all about customer experience. A terry towel is too heavy for a hot and moist Hammam, our fouta are as absorbent as terry towels but weigh less."