Hints to china and tile decorators
A late nineteenth-century manual by John C. L. Sparkes, published in Boston in 1877 by S.W. Tilton, offering practical hints to china and tile decorators. The pictures show black-and-white border and ornament designs for ceramic bands, a turntable-style stand for holding work, and a box of Tilton's prepared colours for decorating pottery, with the engraved plates giving plain, printable patterns a designer could adapt for ceramic borders.
