Jackstraw Linoleum

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Date

1955

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I mentioned previously that the [Jack Straw motif on Hycroft china was inspired by a lino sample](http://canadiandesignresource.ca/ceramics/hycroft-creamer-jack-straw-pattern/) – this pattern likely inspired the name. According to Malcolm MacArthur who managed Medicine Hat Pottery, the precursor to Hycroft, the designers “often sought ideas from floor covering catalogues”. -Allan Collier

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Production Location

Montreal, QC

Sources

MacArthur, Malcom. Letter to the author. July, 1992.

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