Incline Press - Feathergill's Donkey Brand

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Feathergill's Donkey Brand, by Claire Robertson-Dwyer. Chapbook, chequebook 8vo, 12p, Incline Press, Oldham, 2014.

Handset in 12 point Granby with Prism for the title, and done on Hahnemuhle paper. 1 line-block illustration repeated and two tipped-in donkey stone wrappers. Sewn into a printed card cover. The edition is of 160 unnumbered copies. New.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, before so many forms of concrete became common, brick built houses for industrial workers tended to have steps and sills made from local stone. They were kept clean and white (or at least a lighter grey!) by scrubbing them with a 'Donkey Stone'. Made from ground sandstone and bleach with a little cement powder to hold it all together; each stone was about the size of a bar of soap. Feathergill's was one of the most popular of these stones and its trade mark Donkey gave these bars their name. The poem captures the rhythm as well as the drudgery of the housewife's routine job.

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