Title
Fabric samples from ABC Wax
Reference
YA2013.17/4
Production date
1985 - 2009
Creator
- A. Brunnschweiler & Co. LtdBiographyBiography
Textile merchant based in Manchester, known as ABC Wax. The company produced its first wax printed cottons at its Hyde factory in 1908. It was acquired by Cha Textile Group in 1992, but produciton continued at the Hyde site until 2007. Production was then taken over by another company in the Cha Textile Group, Akosombo Textiles Limited, based in Ghana.
Scope and Content
52 card-mounted fabric samples of ‘Moon and Stars’ design, printed using a copper roller in the collection, c 1990-2004.
Extent
52 items
Level of description
FILE
Repository name
Science and Industry Museum
Associated people and organisations
- A. Brunnschweiler & Co. LtdBiographyBiography
Textile merchant based in Manchester, known as ABC Wax. The company produced its first wax printed cottons at its Hyde factory in 1908. It was acquired by Cha Textile Group in 1992, but produciton continued at the Hyde site until 2007. Production was then taken over by another company in the Cha Textile Group, Akosombo Textiles Limited, based in Ghana.
Conditions governing access
Open access.
Conditions governing Reproduction
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