Pathways in the Nineteenth-Century British Textile Industry

Dr Philip A. Sykas, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

• VOLUME III CALICO PRINTING: A SHOWCASE FOR INNOVATONVolume III: List of images Volume III: Timeline Volume III: References Introduction to Volume III: Calico Printing: A Showcase for InnovationPART 1: The spectacle of technology1 ‘A Day at a Lancashire Print-Work’ and ‘A Day at the Barrowfield Dye-Works, Glasgow’DODD, GEORGE2 ‘Table-Cloth Printing Works, Merton, Surrey’MR. T. WELCH’S3 Manchester at Work FLETCHER, WILLIAM4 ‘Society: Entertainments, Balls, &c.’ LOWE, ELIZABETH (ED.)5 ‘The British Calico-Printing Industry: Annual Exports £10,444,000!’SHORTER, CLEMENT KING (ED.)PART 2: The empire of taste: role of the designer 6 H., J. ‘William Kilburn’ 7 Designer’s Letter Book, 1807–13ROBERT PEEL & CO.8 ‘Rules for the Drawing Shop’SWAISLAND, CHARLES9 Calico Printing as an Art Manufacture. A Lecture Read Before the Society of Arts, April 22, 1852 95POTTER, EDMUND10 A Voice from the Bench. By a DesignerBULL, THOMAS11 ‘Designers’ Ateliers in Paris’ MERCER, WILLIAM12 A Fancy Manufacturer (pseud.). ‘Ladies as Designers’ 13 ‘Warwick Brookes. I’ LETHERBROW, THOMAS14 ‘On the Design and Designers of the Victorian Reign’ HAITÉ, GEORGE C.15 ‘The Art Movement. The Quaint and Grotesque in Cotton Designing’ DOLMAN, FREDERICK16 ‘The Industrial Designer’ WILCOCK, ARTHURPART 3: The principle of copying: role of the engraver 17 Memoranda of the Greenhalgh Family GREENHALGH, JOSEPH DODSON18 ‘Obituary. Joseph Lockett’ WALLIS, GEORGE19 ‘A Lancashire Industry. Calico Printing: Engraving the Designs. By Our Special Commissioner. Sketches by Our Own Artist’ ATTWOOD, B. S. (ED.)20 ‘Some Things about Engraving for Calico Printing’ SHEARER, JOHNPART 4: The ‘rainbow makers’: role of the colourist 21 Calico Printer’s Notebook, c. 1803–1805 VINT, EDWARD22 ‘Some of the Practical Discoveries of John Mercer Esquire of Oakenshaw, as Furnished to Me by his Son John for the Information of the Royal Society, 15th November 1847’ GRAHAM, JOHN23 ‘The Chemical Principles Involved in the Manufactures of the Exhibition as Indicating the Necessity of Industrial Instruction’PLAYFAIR, LYON24 ‘Diary Book. John Lightfoot Jur. trip to France, October 1854’ LIGHTFOOT, JOHN25 ‘The Printing and Dyeing of Calico, Silk, and Woollen Fabrics’, ‘Garancine’, and ‘Garancine Colours’O’NEILL, CHARLES26 ‘An Inquiry into the Extent to which Calico Printing and the Tinctorial Arts have been Affected by the Introduction of Modern Colours’O’NEILL, CHARLES27 ‘Address to the American Committee, 6 October1906, New York’ 263PERKIN, SIR WILLIAM HENRYPART 5: In the workshop: role of the printer 28 ‘Copper-plate Work, in Calico-Printing’ and ‘Discharging of Colour’ THOMSON, JAMES29 ‘On Calico-Printing’ PARKES, SAMUEL30 Considerations Addressed to the Journeymen Calico Printers. By One of their Masters and Considerations Considered and Replied Unto &c. 31 Association of Calico Printers. Report of Calico Printers’ Committee on Wages; Resolutions of the Meeting; and List of Prices 32 Children’s Employment Commission. Second Report of the Commissioners: Trades and Manufactures KENNEDY, JOHN LAWSON33 ‘Calico-Printing Processes’ PARNELL, EDWARD ANDREW (ED.)34 ‘Early Days of Calico Printing. An Old Letter’ KENWORTHY, CHARLES35 ‘The Calico Printing Machine. By a Calico Printer’ TURNBULL, WILLIAM (ATTRIB.)36 ‘Fabric Printing. Block Work and Machine Printing Compared’ HONEY, ERNESTPART 6: A seasonal and fancy trade 37 A Letter to the Rt. Hon. Lord Althorp, Chancellor of the Exchequer, &c. &c. on the Subject of the Duty on Printed Cottons. By a Calico Printer POTTER, EDMUND38 A Letter to the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, on the Evils of an Extension of the Existing Copyright ROSS, WILLIAM39 Notes on the Present State of Calico Printing in Belgium, with Prefactory Observations on the Competition and Tariff of Different Countries THOMSON, JAMES40 ‘The Past Progress and Present Artistic Condition of Calico Printing in Britain’ WALLIS, GEORGE41 ‘Customs in the Cotton Trade. Tampering with the Imperial Standard of Measurement’ 42 ‘English v. American Calico Printing’ MARSDEN, RICHARD (ED.)PART 7: Beginnings and endings 43 ‘Messrs. Hargreaves’ Calico Print Works at Broad Oak, Accrington’ HARGREAVES, BENJAMIN44 ‘Calico Printers’ SLUGG, JOSIAH THOMAS45 Our Special Commissioner. ‘Some Materials Towards a History of Block Printing’46 Inquisitions of excise debtors. James Halfhide sen. and jun.; Peter Papillon; Joseph Ancell; James Clapham; Thomas Huntingdon 47 Old Ford sale advertisements: Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser 48 Bridge Water & Shaw Bridge Print Works, Clitheroe . . . Sold by Auction SALISBURY, JOHN (AUCTIONEER)49 High Court of Justice: Chancery Division Particulars and Conditions of Sale of a Valuable Silk Printing Works, as a Going Concern, with benefit of Orders on Hand. For many years owned and worked by the old-established firm of Baker, Tuckers and Co., situate at Garrett Lane, Tooting Index