Description:Pottery factory interior with a view inside a print workshop.
The woman is applying transfers to ware.
The man is operating a 'press print' machine with an engraved copper plate.
Ink from the engraving is pressed onto very thin tissue paper using the press.
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.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This photograph is part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.