Spode Portmeirion Group's factory in Stoke-on-Trent. Spode's "Christmas Tree" is a popular pattern of Christmas china collected by people around the world. Though Spode began making china in the late 1700s, it wasn't until the 1930s that the Christmas pattern was created. The collection started with only a plate, but now includes place settings, serving dishes and even flatware. Spode Spode is an English brand of pottery and homewares produced by the company of the same name, which is based in Stoke-on-Trent, England. Spode was founded by Josiah Spode (1733–1797) in 1770, and was responsible for perfecting two extremely important techniques
Royal Worcester Corset Company Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2009 when Brooklyn Museum moved its costume collection in order to reduce expenses. Contemporary Worcester playwrights Virginia Byrne and Kallin Johnson, of Notre Dame Academy, debuted their fictionalized musical "Royal Worcester Corset Company" in 1993, to commemorate the women who worked at the factory. Royal Worcester Corset Company The Royal Worcester Corset Company, was founded as The Worcester Skirt Company by David Hale Fanning in 1861 in Worcester, MA, and first specialized in making hoop skirts. In 1872 the company changed its name to the Worcester Corset Co., to reflect its change of direction from