FORGET ME NOT

This simple flower . .

Woven by Welch & Lenton

Reference Number:-  
owe 272  
 
Bookmark with title words, words of verse, and image of flowers
 

Words:

FORGET
ME NOT

 
 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.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

image of flowers

 
 
 
identical bookmarks woven in different coloured silk:
 
bookmark woven with
black background colour
and with a silk fringe
 
same bookmark woven with black background colour and with a silk fringe
 
bookmark woven with
white background colour
 
 
same bookmark woven with white background colour
 
bookmark woven with
blue background colour
 
 
same bookmark woven with blue background colour
 
  
Recorded by John High in his unpublished list
Size of Silk:
21.2cm long by 5.5cm wide
 
Alternative back-ground colours:
Black
White
Blue
 
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

Above, on the left, is an image of the same bookmark with a silk fringe all around the edge. It is not known if this bookmark has a makers name woven on the reverse. Other similar fringed bookmarks, however, have not had any name.

 
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This page was created on 21 July 2007
white background image added 27 Februry 2019 and image of bookmark with fringe also added 27 February 2019. Blue background image added 4 March 2019 © Peter Daws - Stevengraph-Silks