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A page from the 1841 census showing the number of people with calico printing related occupations living on Russell Street, now Whalley Road, Clitheroe (Click the image to enlarge)
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The illustration below shows the calico printing process. The worker on the left is using a machine printing process with engraved copper rollers transferring the pattern onto the cloth.
The worker on the right is a block printer, using hand carved wooden block. Note the buckets of dye under the machine.
Primrose mill used both processes
simultaneously
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Illustration showing the calico printing process
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Original swatches of fabric dyed and printed at Primrose Mill from about 1830 are in Manchester Central Library Local Studies Department, in a ledger bought from the sale of Primrose Mill in 1854. |
