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In an article in <i>Studies in the Decorative Arts</i> (1998) Laura Microulis describes an analysis of 737 orders which showed that approximately 70 per cent had come from the gentry or the middle class.\r\n\r\nPart of the stock of Hindley's, this cotton was printed for them by outside contract printers.  The leading firm at this time was Thomas Clarkson of Bannister Hall, Lancashire, which was probably responsible for printing this example. Hindley's (also known as Charles Hindley, C. Hindley & Sons, and Hindley & Wilkinson)  was founded by Charles Hindley in Berners Street, London,  in 1817.  The firm became one of the leading full-service house furnishers, and in 1844 expanded with the purchase of the Miles and Edwards (founded in 1822), which specialised in the sale of textile furnishings. It then moved to 134 Oxford Street, where the principle department was the 'Chintz Room', which displayed specimens of chairs and sofas covered with printed furnishings for clients to examine before placing their orders.","physicalDescription":"Furnishing fabric","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Bannister Hall","id":"A9038"},"association":{"text":"printers","id":"x31107"},"note":"probably"},{"name":{"text":"C. 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A. Hindley as a group presumably including all pattern books and textiles now with 'T' and 'Circ' numbers, for £25, see RP 1925/7160. Charles. Albert Hindley (1863-1947) was the grandson of the founder of C. Hindley &amp; Sons.\r\n\r\nMiles & Edwards were furniture printers from 1821. William Miles, linen-draper, was established from at least 1805 in Holborn, moving to Oxford Street in 1811. He had some cottons printed at Bannister Hall in 1806. Miles and Edwards, appearing first in the directory of 1822, probaby set  up their other Oxford Street address [134] in April 1821, the date of the first sample in their order books T.209-T.211-1925. The firm's stock was taken over in [1844] by Charles Hindley who continued to produce their more popular patterns for several decades.\n\nIn 1891 another firm, Charles Wilkinson &amp; Sons, of 8 Bond Street, joined with Hindley to create Hindley &amp; Wilkinson, with showrooms at Bond Street and (from 1909 only) Welbeck Street. \n\nThe firm was bought in 1912 by Debenham, Storr &amp; Sons, and merged with Marshall &amp; Snelgrove in about 1918. \n\n(Based on text from Wendy Hefford, <i>The Victoria and Albert Museum's Textile Collection: Design for Printed Textiles in England from 1750 to 1850</i>, London, 1992, p.158, with recent updates, for sources see the Furniture History Society British and Irish Makers database online)","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Textile sample","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"British Galleries:\nChintz (printed cotton with a glazed finish) was the most popular form of lightweight furnishing in the1850s.  It was used for curtains, especially for summer use, and for loose covers. We know that this chintz was sold by C. Hindley & Sons, one of the best-known house furnishers in London, who would have had it specially woven. Their principal showroom was called the 'Chintz Room', underlying the importance of this part of their trade.","date":{"text":"27/03/2003","earliest":"2003-03-27","latest":"2003-03-27"}}],"partNumbers":["T.219:18-1925"],"accessionNumberNum":"219","accessionNumberPrefix":"T","accessionYear":1925,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LR1940","2019LP1769","2019LV6224"],"recordModificationDate":"2026-07-07","recordCreationDate":"2003-03-27","availableToBook":false}}