Label: leather binding, pen and ink on paper pages, printed cotton samples
Dimensions:
H x W: 21 x 16.5 cm (8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.)
Type:
sample books
Dyer's record book
Made in:
Bury, England
Dover, New Hampshire, USA
Date:
1820–39
Catalogue Status:
Research in Progress
Description:
Record book of dye recipes kept by the textile printer Edmund Barnes that was started in Bury, England in the late 1820s. The printer brought the book with him to Dover, New Hampshire in 1829 when he began working for Dover Manufacturing Company, later known as Cocheco Print Works. Barnes continued to add to the notebook through the early 1830s.
The small book contains samples of printed cottons with handwritten dyestuff recipes, dyeing processes and finishing techniques. A small bill loose in back of book bears the name: William Barnes. Book bound in marble paper sides and leather back.
