(wreath with words:
Forget Me Not

(flowers with ribbon:
This simple flower . . .

Woven by Welch & Lenton

Reference Number:-  
owe 264  

Bookmark with title words in a wreath of forget-me-not flowers, and words of verse on a ribbon in another wreath

Words:

 
 
wreath of
forget-me-not flowers
with words:
 
forget
me
not
 
 
 
 
 
 
forget-me-not flowers
with ribbon
on which are words:
 
THIS SIMPLE FLOWER
BETRAYS MY HEART

AND BREATHES FOR ME
THE WISH I WOT

IT BIDS MY THOUGHTS
TO LANGUAGE START

AND ASKS THEE TO

FORGET ME NOT

Recorded by John High in his unpublished list
Size of Silk:

cm long by cm wide

Alternative back-ground colours:
 
Comments:
Signed: "WELCH & LENTON. COVENTRY" on the back top turnover.

reverse top turn-over of this bookmark
image of reverse top turn over of this bookmark

This bookmark is identical to Bollans - recorded as obo264

 

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