841

Uploaded on:
2007-12-12 05:11:26.0
File Size:
21.57 MB
Dimensions:
3368 x 2236 pixels
4020 views 0 downloads
Image Reference Number: ESF17_11_09
Title: Ercol : Upholstery Workshop
Photographer: unknown
Date: 1976
Decade: 1970-1979
Manufacturer: Furniture Industries Ltd.
Description: Colour slide showing: a cutter, batch cutting, using an electric rotary cutter.
Notes: This image is an outtake from Ercol's 'Craft Around the World' slide presentation from 1976. Date is from the presentation's slide carousel box. 'Saw Doctors - Furniture Industries & Latimer' is written on the transparency bag.
Note: For producion-line process; several layers of accurately lined and pattern matched fabric were cut at the same time. Plain and all-over fabrics were cut in greater quantities because there was less of an issue with fabric movement and accuracy as there was with pattern critical fabrics.
Concepts:
manufacturing
,
furniture
,
upholstery
   
Copyright: contact HWeFA for details about re-use of this image
Collection Title: HWeFA
Object Type: transparency
Object Dimensions (cm.): 3.6 x 2.4
Colour Type: colour
Context: In Bag 11 in Craft World folders
Cataloguer: Stephen Gange-Moody
Date Catalogued: Fri May 16 00:00:00 BST 2008
Auto ID Number: 841
Categories: Furniture Manufacturing/ Processes/ Upholstery