Description:Pottery factory interior taken in a print workshop.
The printers are making transfers using engraved copper plates.
Ink from the engraving is pressed onto very thin tissue paper using a press called a 'press print'.
The pattern would then be applied to the ware from the transfer.
Using this method to decorate ware meant that perfection of detail could be achieved consistently.
The skill in this process lay in producing a transfer without blurs by carefully teasing the very thin paper off the inked copper plate.
The worker on the right is inking an engraved copper plate. The one on the left is carefully removing a transfer from a plate.
Taken at Shelly's pottery factory, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This photograph is part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.