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the presence of the English and French statuary of the 13th and 14th cen-
turies will keep us from blindly following the angular folds and faulty propor-
tions which so often disfigure the productions of the artists of Germany
and 
Flanders. 
Again, illuminated manuscripts will form another branch. We need 
scarcely say that the day of manuscripts has passed ; but printing, Mr. Owen
Jones has shewn us, need not be ugly because useful. What is there to pre-
vent our ornamenting our typography with the illuminated initials of Faust
and Schooffer's Bible, or the celebrated Pliny ? Next month we shall be in
a 
position to speak of the complete details of this exhibition. 
THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF GREAT MANUFACTORIES, BY THE PROPRIETORS. 
ARRANGEMENTs for some time have been in progress for publishing in THE 
JouRNAL OF DsIGN AND MANUFACTURES a series of papers On the Rise and 
Progress of the great Manufactories of this Kingdom. Only the most accurate
and authentic accounts of facts rather than opinions it is proposed shall
be 
given, and the history of each manufactory will be written either by the
pro- 
prietors of it, or by some one with their express sanction. 
It is conceived that a most important record will thus be made of facts 
of great value in commercial history, the remembrance of which is daily 
passing away and lost for want of some motive and medium for preserving 
them; and that the proposal will meet with the hearty concurrence of all
great manufacturers who desire that the well-merited fame of the works of
their predecessors and themselves should not pass into oblivion and be for-
gotten. Among the various points which these memoirs will, as far as 
possible, embrace, may be enumerated the following:- 
1. FOUNDATION: (a) What year the manufactory was founded. (b) By whom 
founded. (c) The first partners, if any. 
2. SITE: (a) The early site and size of the manufactory. (b) If enlarged,
when. 
(c) If removed, where from. 
3. MANUFACTUnsS: (a) Their character when the manufactory was established.
(b) Any, and what changes. (c) Modes of producing. Processes. (d) When steam
power first used, if used. (e) Any great improvements introduced, and when.
Re- 
sults. (f) Enumeration of those for which the factory is most remarkable.
(g) Any 
great discoveries in science or manufacture connected with the manufactory.
(h) Any 
successful patent inventions which have been carried out in the manufactory.
(i) Any which have failed, and why. Difficulties. 
4. CHIEF MATERIALS USED: (a) Where best are procured. (b) Native or foreign.
(c) Great fluctuations in the price at different times. 
5. WORKMEN: (a) Names of classes employed, such as designers, putters on,
model- 
lers, turners, printers, &c. (b) Numbers. (c) Hours of attendance. (d)
Average 
rate of wages. (e) Fluctuations in rates of wages, and reasons. (f) Payment
by 
piece-work or day wages. (g) Names of any which have risen to eminence, and
anecdotes of them. (h) General character and habits of the workmen. 
We have great pleasure in commencing the series with a manufactory so 
eminent as 
Messrs. Hargreaves' Calico Print Works at Broad Oak, Accrington. 
Calico-printing was first introduced in Lancashire, in the year 1764, by
Messrs. Clayton, of Bamber Bridge, near Preston; but it was the father of
the 
late Sir Robert Peel who established printing in the north-east of the county,
about the year 1770. The accidental circumstance of some cloth being 
damaged, in the process of weaving, by Mr. Peel's family, is said to have
induced him to get it printed into handkerchiefs, which, meeting with a ready
disposal, led him to printing on a large scale. 
His first works were at Brookside, a little village about two miles from
Blackburn, situate to the right of the highroad from that place to Accrington.
Mr. Peel subsequently removed to Church, about a mile north-east of Brook-
side, and hence we trace the origin of the extensive print works of Lan-
cashire, which for their magnitude and efficiency are not surpassed, if equalled,