The Old Edinburgh Street

Woven on Silk:-

 

Printed at top of card:-
 

Printed at bottom of card:-
W.H GRANT, MANUFACTURER, FOLESHILL, COVENTRY.

 The Old Edinburgh Street,
 (WOVEN IN PURE SILK)
 A Present from the International Exibition,
 Edinburgh, 1886.

Card-mount:
16.5cm deep by 19.2cm wide

silk:
6.1cm high by 12.0cm wide

by Geoffrey Godden:
This silk shows the reconstructed street which formed part of the 1886 Edinburgh Exhibition. W. H. Grant had a loom working here producing these silk views as momentoes. This scene, when sold separately, was priced at 1s, and the card-mount bears the printed wording 'A Present from the International Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1886'.
The same subject was, however, used in the 2s, multi-silk picture titled 'Old Edinburgh Views'.

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