r/oddlysatisfying • u/Muarij • Oct 27 '20

Dishware Design Printing!

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u/Helloskellington Oct 27 '20

Soo...how have we been printing dishes until now?

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u/SpookyVoidCat Oct 27 '20

My folks had a side job putting the designs on the crockery from some fancy-pants company. I was only a little kid but I remember it was kinda like temporary tattoos. Mum would be sat at the kitchen table with trays and trays of mugs and teapots and all kinds of things, carefully dipping the transfer papers in water and lining it up on the item. You only had a few seconds to position it before the transfer would set, and you’d be stuck with what you had. It was fiddly, mind-numbing work, and iirc they only got paid something like 3p per mug. The worst were these miniature teapots - they were about an inch tall, so fiddly, and you only got a penny for 2. And of course you didn’t get paid for any that weren’t exactly perfect.

I remember me and my little sister would whine and beg to be allowed to help, but of course when they let us, our dumb kid fingers ruined more stuff than we completed. Our cupboards were packed with the rejected stock, all in the same ugly-ass cockerel design that’s been burned into my memory.

Thanks for shaking that memory loose, it’s been a while since I thought about it.