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The Seattle-based company produced affordable, large-scale (up to 8 feet in length) limited-edition serigraphs featuring artwork by Hayslette for corporate and hotel interior decoration. Olympus Graphics developed a nationwide clientele before being acquired, and renamed Grand Image, by Larry Winn in 1984.
A cel, short for celluloid, is a transparent sheet on which objects are drawn or painted for traditional, hand-drawn animation. Actual celluloid (consisting of cellulose nitrate and camphor) was used during the first half of the 20th century. Since it was flammable and dimensionally unstable, celluloid was largely replaced by cellulose acetate.
The company was established in 1919 as Ex-Cell-O Tool and Manufacturing Co. by a group of tool and die makers, all of whom were former employees of Ford Motor Company. The site of the original shop was located in Highland Park, Michigan. This location is a few blocks from the world's first automobile assembly line, at the Highland Park Ford Plant.
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The National Serigraph Society was founded in 1940 by a group of artists involved in the WPA Federal Art Project, including Anthony Velonis, Max Arthur Cohn, and Hyman Warsager. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The creation of the society coincided with the rise of serigraphs being used as a medium for fine art. [ 4 ]
In 1924, Becker relocated the company to its current location in Sycamore, Illinois. [7] By 1949, it had become the United States' leading producer of wire nuts. [8] In 2010, Ideal acquired three American hand tool manufacturers: Western Forge in January, [9] [10] Pratt-Read in March, [11] [12] and SK Hand Tools in August. [13] [14] [15]
The earliest reference to the Milward family in connection with needle making is a James Milward who was a needle maker on Fish Hill in 1676. Symon Milward created the company of Henry Milward & Sons aka Milward's Needles (Milward's) in 1730 at the age of 40, in Redditch, United Kingdom. It was however, his son Henry who takes credit for the ...
Vlchek originally made and sharpened tools for stonecutters and masons, and later made tools for automobiles and for agriculture machinery. Vlchek Tool Company was founded as a blacksmith shop in 1894 in Cleveland, Ohio by Frank J. Vlchek. [1] It was incorporated in 1909. [1] In 1958 Pendleton Tool Industries Co. bought the Vlchek Tool Company. [2]