VILLAGE KEPT AT WORK
WORKERS PRESERVE SECRET A Midlands woman, Miss Starbuek, who wont to the villago of Pentewan, Cornwall, nine years ago with a capital ol' £5, now keeps nearly every woman in the place at work in painting pottery by her own secret process. To-dav she showed a visitor over her studio. As soon as the visitor entered tho door the girls and women who were painting vases, dishes, pitchers, beads, and chinaware of all kinds stopped their work immediately. " All my workers are pledged to hccrecy," said Miss Starbuek, " and thoy would not dream of telling anyone how the colouring is done. Several attempts have been made to copy my process, but none has been successful." Miss Starbuek was attracted by Pentewan, a beautiful little fishing vallage, and as there were china clay quarries • a/id pottery manufacturers close at hand she decided to settle down there. One of the most flourishing cottage industries of Britain started in the cottage she took as her home—the smallest cottage in the village, and probably the smallest one in Cornwall. It has two Aoms, one above tho other, and the frontage is not more than 10ft. Here Miss Starbuek began painting I Truro pottery by hand herself. , a
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21520, 17 June 1933, Page 2 (Supplement)
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