Forget-me-not

Forget Me Not
While Life Remains . . .

Woven by Welch & Lenton

Reference Number:-  
owe 244  
silk bookmark with title words, words of a verse, image of flowers followed by words of a second verse
the image of this silk
bookmark was kindly donated
by Hamish Bell, UK
silk bookmark with title words, words of a verse, image of flowers followed by words of a second verse

Words:

FORGET
ME NOT

 
FORGET ME NOT
WHILE LIFE REMAINS
WITHIN THY LOVING
BREAST,
WHERE HONOUR IN
AFFECTION REIGNS
TO MAKE THEE
TRULY BLEST.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

image of flowers

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
FORGET ME NOT
IN HAPPY DAYS,
WHEN GLADNESS FILLS
THY HEART,
FORGET ME NOT
BE EVER TRUE,
THY LOVE TO ME
IMPART.
 
Not recorded by John High in his unpublished list
Size of Silk:

27.9cm long by 5.6cm wide

Alternative back-ground colours:
White
Comments:

Signed: "WELCH & LENTON. COVENTRY" on the back top turnover.

Welch & Lenton name woven on reverse

This bookmark is identical to Bollans - recorded as obo244

 
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Hamish Bell image added 17 February 2016 © Peter Daws - Stevengraph-Silks