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modern transferware Posted by Susan D. Walter on December 5, 2022, 4:37 pm I can buy modern transferware...but at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_printing Burleigh is mentioned as the last company in the world to manufacture transferware. What is your opinion of this statement? Thanks

Re: modern transferware Posted by Susan D. Walter on December 6, 2022, 11:53 am, in reply to "modern transferware" I got an excellent response from the manufacturers of Calamityware: https://calamityware.com/blogs/news/25625924-pirates-in-production?comment=124677193751#comments Your comments are much appreciated... Susan

Re: modern transferware Posted by Alasdair Brooks on February 4, 2023, 11:54 am, in reply to "Re: modern transferware" Hi Susan, Only caught this now... Writing as the chief executive of the charity that runs Middleport Pottery in Stoke, where Burleigh are based (and as an archaeologist), Burgess & Leigh is the last pottery firm in Staffordshire that produces traditional transfer-printed ceramics using tissue transfer techniques. That doesn't preclude the existence of small-scale companies or individuals using similar techniques (as with Calamityware in Pittsburgh, PA), but I think that the claim on the Wikipedia page is that Burleigh is the last pottery to still manufacture transfer prints (which is a little awkwardly phrased since the pottery itself is Middleport, but the intent seems reasonably clear to me).

Re: modern transferware Posted by Susan D. Walter on February 4, 2023, 9:49 pm, in reply to "Re: modern transferware" The last POTTERY, then, OK. Thank you very much. We've had Burgess and Leigh here in San Diego County archaeological sites; I recognize some of the patterns as shown on the TCC Database. And the beehive marks. Susan

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