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West Virginia State Museum Curator Jim Mitchell holds one of the 360 chrome-plated copper decorating cylinders from Joy Bachman's collection of both Carr and Warwick cylinders.

Mitchell assumes the process was similar to that used by Spode, of which he is very familiar. In the Spode process, plates were inked with a brayer and then a piece of rice paper was placed over it, and it was put through a press. The paper was pulled off and cut apart.

Then the ware was coated with mucilage, and the paper was applied by a decorator. The the ware was washed, the the rice paper came off, but the design stayed. (The design would have been printed in reverse and applied upside down on the ware.)