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Carr's biscuit factory
Research
The Carr's biscuit factory was founded in 1831 by Jonathan Dodgson Carr, originally from the town Kendal. His father was Jonathan Carr, a quaker grocer, and his mother was Jane Dodgson. In 1820, when he was 14 years old, he became a bakers apprentice in Stockton and in 1831 he walked all the way from Kendal to Carlisle, about 3 days with breaks, and decided to set shop there. In the 1840's Carr started to protest strongly against the corn laws for it had an effect on purchasing the quality of flour that he needed to make his biscuits the best. Jonathan believed in treating his customers with the best product he could make and treating his workers fairly by offering them communal baths, built a school and a library for the public. This factory in the oldest still running biscuit factory, going 194 years.
The story of Jonathan: https://www.erih.net/how-it-started/stories-about-people-biographies/biography/carr
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/the-corn-laws/
Trip to the House of Tully
The House of Tully has a display of old Carr's biscuits tins and cookie moulds along with facts about the history of the factory and other items. I wanted to take inspiration from the cookie tins for the stamp border and packaging, the stamps being like cookies in a box.
Post stamps
Some post stamps I looked at, I took the biggest inspiration from stamps like the Faroes one with Rán and Þór when it comes to the art expanding to the border concept.
The size of post stamps seem to vary a lot, there does't seem to be a clear rule when it comes to their measurements but I stuck to a similar size as the ones to the right.
I wanted to show the founder Jonathan, the famous water biscuits, his tailcoat he commissioned to advertise the protest against the cornlaws he was so adamantly against and the cracker packers, the female workforce behind piping the cream onto cookies, stacking them organising and packing.
the vest: https://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/aVPNb8K8R2iUgCLewALKmw
Working out what to show
Thumbnailing
Some attempts at thumbnailing for the stamps.
Colouring and semi finalized
Final outcome
I detailed the eyes, moved the box of biscuits to the left and added a hand reaching for a biscuit
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