by Austin Sprake:
Single picture of the Exhibition Hall. [Sprake records STG119 as the
Composite Picture silk with the same title]
by Geoffrey Godden:
This rare, hitherto unrecorded, silk shows an aerial view of the Edinburgh Exhibition buildings. This scene was woven at the Exhibition, which opened on 6 May 1886 (on which day 40,000 persons attended), and these silk-woven souvenirs were sold at the Stevens stand. The official catalogue notes - "Improved Jacquard Loom in motion for weaving all kinds of illuminated silk goods such as book-markers, silk pictures, braces, garters, ties, handkerchiefs, etc. etc." This Exhibition souvenir is mounted on a special Exhibition mount and bears label 20+2.
Other comments:
Stevens also produced a multiple silk picture with exactly the same title. The other item (st 36 on this site) has the silk from above as the centre piece, and four other Edinburgh scenes around it, and the Edingurgh City Arms and crest.
