VILLAGE KEPT AT WORK
WORKERS PRESERVE SECRET. A Midlands woman, Mrs Starbuck. who went to the village of Pentewan, Cornwall, nine years ago with a capital of 15, now keeps nearly every woman in the place at work in painting pottery by her own secret process. To-day she snowed a visitor over her studio. As soon as the visitor entered the 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 secrecy," said Miss Starbuck, "and they 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 Starbuck was attracted by Pentewan, a beautiful little fishing village, and. as there were china clay quarries and 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 rooms, one above the other, and the frontage is not more than 10 feet. Here Miss Starbuck began painting Truro pottery by hand herself.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22051, 6 September 1933, Page 12
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