pattern book
Summary
Large bound folio, in dark green, American cloth with red leather trim. Containing 396 pages with 3722 samples of printed cottons in stripes, checks, florals, paisleys and dots, intended primarily for handkerchiefs, linings and shirtings. They date from March 1849 to December 1852 and each includes the client-firm for whom the printing was intended. Lockett, Crossland & Co started trading in 1849 from Strangeways in Manchester, and this is the earliest pattern-book to survive. It possibly belonged to Joseph Lockett, the firm's founder, a celebrated engraver for textile printing. The firm exhibited three designs (for T Hoyle & Son) at the 1851 Great Exhibition. Other pattern-books dating from the 1860's to the 1930's were sold at the same auction, although no others had the clients listed.
Object Name
pattern book
Creators Name
Date Created
1849-1852
Dimensions
Size: 20ins x 12ins
accession number
1991.42
Place of creation
Manchester
Medium
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