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Cornishware is a striped kitchenware brand manufactured by T.G. Green & Co Ltd. Originally introduced in the 1920s and manufactured in Church Gresley, Derbyshire, it was a huge success for the company and the succeeding 30 years it was exported around the world. The company ceased production in June 2007 when the factory closed under the ownership of parent company The Tabletop Group. The range was revived in 2009 after T.G. Green was bought by a trio of British investors. == History == T.G. Green & Co was founded by Thomas Goodwin Green of Boston, Lincolnshire in around 1864.〔Cornish Ware | Atterbury | Paul | 2001 | Cornish Ware & domestic pottery by T.G. Green of Church Gresley, Derbyshire | Richard Denis | ISBN 0 903685 83 3〕 Having made a fortune in Australia, Green returned to England to marry Mary Tenniel, the sister of ''Punch'' and ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' illustrator Sir John Tenniel. He bought an existing pottery in Church Gresley from Henry Wileman, while on honeymoon in Scarborough〔 The exact date that Cornishware was created is unknown but it is thought to have been inspired by the need to keep the pottery busy during the difficult years of the 1920s. The earliest mention of Cornishware is in a T.G. Green Trade Catalogue dated 1924, so it is likely it was first introduced in that year. By the 1930s, the range was well established with a thriving export business.〔 The pottery was widely sold throughout the UK through major department stores as well as Harrods. Cornishware stockists carried a standard range of lettered jars, such as flour, sugar, salt, currants, sultanas, raisins, tea and coffee, but purchasers could request jars with customised wording (for instance, paprika, arrowroot, thyme, mace, viota, macaroni). The retailer would then send a request slip to the factory and customised jars would be created then sent back to the store. T.G. Green never kept records of these requests, so there is no complete list of customised jar produced. The signature colour was referred to as 'E.blue' – meaning electric blue.〔 and in 1959 Sunlit Yellow was introduced to the range. In the 1960s new designers were brought in from the Royal College of Art – Scandinavian designer Berit Ternell and, most notably, Judith Onions. She restyled the Cornishware range to give it the distinctive shapes that are still in use today.〔 Some of Onions' designs are held in the V&A collection, as part of the Ceramics Study Galleries.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cornishware」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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