Essays
Below is also a series of related essays that will tell you more about the design, manufacture and consumption of printed textiles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Please select any of the links to find out more information:
- Who was Thomas Wardle?
- The Wardle Pattern Books at the Whitworth Art Gallery
- Thomas Wardle & Co
- Wardle Family Companies
- Wardle Printed Textiles at the Whitworth Art Gallery
- Thomas Wardle and William Morris
- Morris & Co Textiles Printed by Wardle & Co
- Designers working for Wardle & Co
- Wardle & Co and Liberty
- William Morris's print cloths and finishes
- Thomas Wardle & Co: dyers and printers
- Roller Printing at Thomas Wardle's Hencroft Works
- The research value of textile business archives
- Thomas Wardle and Tussur Silk
- The Leek Embroidery Society
- Historical sources of Wardle patterns
- Wardle & Co: getting fabrics to the consumer