Banding.

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Date:1930 - 1939 (c.)

Description:Pottery factory interior showing a man decorating a tea cup.

He is painting a band around the lip of the cup using a whirler. This is commonly known as banding.

Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.

This photograph is part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.

Taken at Shelley's pot bank, Longton.

Banding is the term for painting lines around ware using colour.

The process would be called gilding if the decorator was using gold.

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Source: Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

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