Three years ago today we launched the Minton Archive website with a selection of newly-digitised records and images; a year later we celebrated our first “anniversary” with a 1000 image update and the year after that we unveiled our browsable volumes. This year, spurred on by our involvement with The Democratic Dish: Mintons Secessionist Ware at Chelsea Space, we’re making seven John Wadsworth sketch books available online…
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Over the last few weeks we’ve been busy building new online volumes from some of our previous digitisation work and today we’re releasing them into the wild. You can now find five fully-digitised ornaments books in our online catalogue – that’s 1,395 numbered designs on 1,192 flippable pages… if we’ve done our sums correctly! Continue reading…
You wait for one catalogue update and then two come along at once! This time we’re pleased to report that the browsable volumes we unveiled on our second anniversary, along with the others we’ve posted about since then, are now directly accessible from within the online catalogue.
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We’ve touched on Minton as a tile manufacturer in a previous blog post where we explained that we don’t hold as much tile-related material as you might think, and why. What we do have, however, is referenced quite regularly and so we thought we’d use our new browsable volume feature to bring one of our oft-consulted items online.
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After the successful anniversary launch of an online version of Minton’s Pattern Book No.1 a few weeks ago we’re back with more. You can now view Pattern Book No.s 2, 3 and 4 in their entirety right here on the blog and we’re continuing our work to integrate these viewers into the catalogue pages too. We’ll keep you up-to-date on our progress but for now – just in time for the weekend! – you can view these pattern books below…
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On the 25th September 2015 we officially launched The Minton Archive website and, one year later, celebrated the site’s first anniversary with a special update which pushed the number of images in the online catalogue past 1000. Our second anniversary update takes these catalogue enhancements a step further – starting today we’ll be making a number of special volumes available online in their entirety. (We’re really rather excited about this…)
27/9/2017 Update: We’ve tweaked the viewer for mobile and tablet users, and added a “full screen” button which better utilises your screen real estate for bigger, better pattern book viewing. Thanks for all the feedback so far!
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