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Paine, Randall Biography Biography
Randall Paine was born in Failsworth in 1910. He attended Hulme Grammar School, Oldham. On leaving school, he worked for John Brewer and later became a partner in Brewer & Paine, Textile Designers. The partnership was dissolved in 1939. Paine was conscripted to war work as stores manager at the Avro factory in Chadderton. He was later transferred to the Avro factory at Yeadon, near Leeds. At the end of the war, he worked for Hunslet Engine Co. in Leeds as stores manager, setting up the first computerised stock system for the company. He died in 2006.
Brewer & Paine Textile Designers Biography Biography

Scope and Content
Collection of textile designs produced by Randall Paine during his work as a partner in Brewer & Paine Textile Designers of Deansgate, Manchester. The design drawings date from the late 1920s to 1939. The drawings are gouache on paper and typical of popular textile designs of the period. They were created to a mathematical formula which produced a pattern repeat to fit the printing rollers.
Extent
6 boxes and 1 suitcase
Archival history
The donor saved the drawings on the advice of a friend following her father's death. The prints were left at Queen Street Mill in Burnley by the daughter of Randall Paine. The prints do not fit with the collecting policy at Queen Street Mill and were therefore offered to the Science and Industry Museum (then MOSI).
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Repository name
Science and Industry Museum

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Paine, Randall Biography Biography
Randall Paine was born in Failsworth in 1910. He attended Hulme Grammar School, Oldham. On leaving school, he worked for John Brewer and later became a partner in Brewer & Paine, Textile Designers. The partnership was dissolved in 1939. Paine was conscripted to war work as stores manager at the Avro factory in Chadderton. He was later transferred to the Avro factory at Yeadon, near Leeds. At the end of the war, he worked for Hunslet Engine Co. in Leeds as stores manager, setting up the first computerised stock system for the company. He died in 2006.

Subject
Textile arts
Textile industry
Textile art
Textile design drawings
Textile industry
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Open Access
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