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Graffiti scratched onto the glass windows in the Long Gallery at Haddon Hall, Derbyshire

Graffiti scratched onto the glass windows in the Long Gallery at Haddon Hall, Derbyshire

Edit : It seems that the writing above is a business card.......

"In the early days the fustian or calico was printed by hand using wooden blocks dipped into bowls of coloured dye but a pottery painter living in New Mills worked out how to bring the process into the factory age.

“Calico printing is performed with cylindrical copper rollers, on which the figures are engraved. The process of this mode of printing is so rapid, that pieces of twenty-eight yards are thrown off from each set of rollers in less than two minutes. This art was greatly improved, if not invented, by Mr John Potts, of the house of Potts, Oliver and Potts, of New Mills. This gentleman was an artist himself, and having studied the different shades of colour produced upon the blue-ware in the potteries, he was enabled to bring the art of calico-printing to a perfection of which previously it had not been supposed to be capable.”

Taken from A History and Gazetteer of the County of Derby, S. Glover. 1829

Sherwood Forest in November