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Edward Longbottom and family, Dyers of Batley, Business Archive
Longbottom, Edward
c.1831-1885
The collection has been divided into four groups: pattern books (numbers 1-4); recipe books (numbers 5-19); day books (numbers 20-27); and miscellaneous items (numbers 28-30). The pattern books con...
Numbered patterns
No date
Numbered patterns. Some patterns are shown in more than one shade for the same number. Many numbers have no pattern and are listed separately on each page with the name of the shade against the number...
Numbered patterns with corresponding recipes listed separately
1884
ff 18. ff 12r-18v blank. 7” x 4". Paper covers. Inscribed "Number 2" on first leaf Inserted are (i) A sheet of paper with 10 recipes and patterns (ii) A recipe on part of an old envelope (post...
Numbered patterns with corresponding recipes (for dyeing cotton) listed separately
No date
ff 8. 7" x 4". Inscribed "Number 3" on first leaf
Numbered patterns with corresponding recipes listed separately
No date
ff 14. ff 13r-14r blank. 6.1/2"x4". Paper covers. Written on f 14v: "Number 4".
Folded sheet of paper with numbered recipes and patterns
No date
ff 2. 8" x 6% ”. Inscribed on f 2v, "number 5".
Patterns without recipes
No date
numbered 1-129, followed by nine unnumbered recipes with patterns ff 18. ff 9r-18v blank. 7" x 4". Marbled paper covers.
Recipes numbered 61-104, corresponding to those patterns in number 14
No date
ff 8. ff 6r-8v blank. 7" x 4". Paper cover, numbered 7 on front and back. First leaf headed "Mr James Longbottom".
Recipes under customers' names, with references to "big pattern book" and "brown paper book"
No date
ff 200. ff 139r-200v blank. 8" x 6%". Ruled account book bound in leather with metal clasp missing. Label on front cover reads, "This book is same as number 1 & number 2 books. Dyed at Hunsworth & Bi...
Recipes with patterns
30 June 1865
Also contains list of stock at June 30th 1865 (f 1r-1v), and a few accounts (ff 2r-3r, 71v-72r). ff 72. 6%” x 4”. Ruled account book in full leather with marbled end-papers.
Numbered recipes, without patterns
1 May 1873
ff 149. ff 88v-142r, 144r-147r blank, 6" x 4". Ruled account book in cloth binding, with pocket. Fly-leaf inscribed, "May 1st 1873. John Longbottom, book dyer, Howley Beck, Batley, Yorkshire. 1no patt...
Patterns, numbered 1-56, with recipes for numbers 38-56 at end
1885
ff 118. ff 8v- 116v blank. 7” x4”. Cloth binding. Inscribed inside front cover, "1885. Edward Longbottom, Batley, Yorkshire, Day book".