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Design Department Collection

1820-1912
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The group of six Rossendale Collection volumes within this series is part of a once larger collection of 40 pattern books from the Rossendale design studio of the Calico Printers' Association. This was the studio of the Rossendale Printing Company which began at Loverclough printworks, but after a devastating fire in 1904, transferred to Birch Vale printworks.
The Platt Hall Gallery of Costume in Manchester also hold the following pattern books:
Rossendale Collection: printed cottons 1808-809
Rossendale Collection: printed cottons 1810-1820
Rossendale Collection: printed cottons 1827
Rossendale Collection: printed cottons 1840-1850
Rossendale Collection: printed cottons 1840-1850
Rossendale Collection: printed delaines 1852
Thornliebank Collection: Volume 3 1814
(unmarked volume), printed cottons, c.1900-1902
(unmarked volume), samples pasted over an account book that refers to the Balls Bridge Print Works dated 1798, samples c.180s printed cottons.
Title:
Design Department Collection
Date of work:
1820-1912
Reference number:
GB127.M75/5/1
Level of description:
Part of:
Access restrictions:
UnrestrictedRESTRICTED ACCESS: no copying or photography of pattern books permitted without specific written permission of the depositor.
Use restrictions:
Unrestricted
Record types:
Manchester Archives and Local Studies
Language:
English
Record number:
7259997
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