{"id":1952,"date":"2014-08-08T12:44:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T12:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etiquette.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2014-08-14T07:41:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T07:41:49","slug":"a-history-of-labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etiquette.co.uk\/blog\/a-history-of-labels\/","title":{"rendered":"A history of labels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.etiquette.co.uk\/blog\/images\/a-history-of-printed-labels.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Printed labels have been in use for over 130 years and were initially\u00a0introduced to America by European artists, this profession became known as lithography, the first commercial art. The purpose of the label has always remained the same which is to attract the attention of any potential customers. Labels were used on cedar crates full of fruit, cans of vegetables, and boxes of cigars. Orchard owners used the new concept of lithography to draw attention to their produce as the fruit market grew larger with each passing season. However it wasn\u2019t until the early 1930\u2019s self \u2013 adhesive labels were manufactured.\u00a0 The labels were made out of plain paper and a coat of adhesive, until then gum had been used to stick labels to the crates and other product containers. The term pressure sensitive became the industry name for this type of technique and laid the foundations for the labels that are an integral part of our lifestyle today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Printed labels have been in use for over 130 years and were initially\u00a0introduced to America by European artists, this profession became known as lithography, the first commercial art. The purpose of the label has always remained the same which is to attract the attention of any potential customers. Labels were used on cedar crates full &#8230; <a title=\"A history of labels\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/etiquette.co.uk\/blog\/a-history-of-labels\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[117,1,6,129],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etiquette.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etiquette.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etiquette.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etiquette.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etiquette.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/etiquette.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1964,"href":"https:\/\/etiquette.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions\/1964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etiquette.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etiquette.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etiquette.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}