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Who made these silks? As well as the records for identified weavers, there are a number of images that have not been identified to specific makers. I have included many of these in a seperate section. Several have already been identified, and recorded accordingly, whilst others have been identified as of foreign manufacture and removed. Can you help identify who made any of the remaining ones?
Here are the details of the silk bookmarks, postcards and pictures so far included. Can you help?
 
 
1 August 2025 Stevens Bookmarks The following are new titles and images of woven silk bookmarks, added for the first time to the catalogue:
sb146 - Centennial Exposition (excellent quality image)
sb177 - Declaration of Independence (excellent quality image)
sb186 - Drummers' Day (excellent quality image)
sb592 - Streets Collection July 15, 1893 (excellent quality image)
 
  Stevens Alpha Postcards This alpha postcard title and image is a new addition to the catalogue:
sa346 - May The BESTOWER of all BLISS / To My Dear Son (excellent quality image)

This alpha postcard is identical to another, except the words printed at the top of this card are in italics
sa386 - Mizpah / Birthday Wishes across the Sea (excellent quality image)

This alpha postcard is woven with a different coloured rose, and is added to an existing record so as to enhance the overall information recorded:
sa925 - TO WISH YOU GOOD LUCK ON YOUR BIRTHDAY / May your days be as bright as the flowers, (excellent quality image)

 
  Cash's Bookmarks The following are new titles and images not previously recorded:
cash-bm0789 - Andorra (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0788 - Annual Meeting / Association of Towns (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0790 - Brownie Guide Promise (excellent quality image)

And the following are new images added for the first time to titles already recorded:
cash-bm0252 - Cornwall (Millennium bookmark) (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0576 - Silver Jubilee 1910 - GM - 1935 (rose only at base) (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0581 - Sir Henry Parkes Primary School 2003 (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0617 - The Sweet Pea Fairies (reasonable quality image)

 
  Cash's Pictures The following are new images added for the first time to titles already recorded:
cash-picture0105 - Wood Duck & Merganser (excellent quality image)
cash-picture0115 - {no name - Tom Kitten} (excellent quality image)
cash-picture0364 - Mecca, The Holy City (excellent quality image)
cash-picture0365 - Medina, The Prophet's City (excellent quality image)
cash-picture0024 - Church (excellent quality image)
 
  Cash's Other Items The following are new titles and images not previously recorded, and added for the first time to the catalogue:
cash-other0025 - 1996 Calendar (excellent quality image)
cash-other0028 - 2000 Calendar (excellent quality image)
cash-other0024 - Buttons (multiple images) (excellent quality image)
cash-other0029 - Oval Brooches - European Wild Flowers (multiple images) (excellent quality image)
cash-other0031 - Oval Brooches - North American Wild Flowers (multiple images) (excellent quality image)
cash-other0033 - Sewing kit (needlecase) (excellent quality image)
cash-other0034 - Pin cushion (excellent quality image)
 
  Cash's Greetings cards The following are new titles and images added for the first time:
cash-card0414 - Bald eagle (excellent quality image)
cash-card0417 - Carol singers round a decorated tree (good quality image)
cash-card0416 - Coventry Registry Office (excellent quality image)
cash-card0415 - Deer & Foal (excellent quality image)
cash-card0413 - Lady Godiva statue with Church spire in background (excellent quality image)
cash-card0419 - Unknown flowering tree with small bird (excellent quality image)
cash-card0420 - Unknown flowers with bird (excellent quality image)

And the following is a new image added to an existing title for the first time:
cash-card0125 - Children knocking on front door (excellent quality image)
cash-card0249 - Harbour scene (The Boat: seaside house) (excellent quality image)

 
  Grant Bookmarks The following is a new title and image added for the first time to the Grant catalogue:
gb031 - Coronation 1902 / (portraits) / Crowned 1902 / Edward VII Alexandra (excellent quality image)
gb045 - Crowned 1902 / Edward & VII Alexandra (crown, sceptre etc ) (excellent quality image)
 
  Grant Pictures The following is a new image added to a new, previously unrecorded title:
gt38 - A Present from the International Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1886
(comprising 'City of Edinburgh 1886 & City Arms', 'The Exhibition Building', 'The Band Stand', 'The Old Tolbooth' and 'The Netherbow Port')
(reasonable quality image)
 
  Grant Portrait The following is a new title and image added to the catalogue for the first time:
go183 - Edward VII / Crowned 1902 / Alexandra (good quality image)
 
  Stevens Pictures The following is a new addition to the Stevens Triple Title silk picture catalogue, the image of which was kindly donated by the President of the Stevengraph Collectors Association:
st667 - THE FIRST TOUCH / JEU DE BALLE (excellent quality image)

With the following also being a new addition to the picture catalogue, with good quality image:
st258 - Godiva Procession (excellent quality image)

 
  Welsh & Lenton The following is a new bookmark title and images recorded for the first time:
owe564a - New Year / May each returning New Year's Day (blue & red flowers) (excellent quality image)
 
  Other weavers The following are new bookmark titles and images recorded for the first time:
Berisfords: obe273 - Merry Christmas (excellent quality image)
G.J.G.: ogjg75 - The Lord Watch between Me & Thee (excellent quality image)

And Graham Parker has kindly donated the new image and title of the following Marshall, Morgan & Scott bookmark:
omm45 - Jesus (excellent quality image)

 
  Wilmas Galleries The following are new picture titles and images recorded for the first time:
owg136 - Red flowers (excellent quality image)
owg140 - Pink & blue sweetpea flowers (excellent quality image)
 
 
7 March 2025 Stevens Ship Postcards The following are new images of woven silk ship postcards, added for the first time:
si706 - No words - novelty card only (excellent quality image)
si104 - SS California (steaming left) (excellent quality image)
si672 - RMS Virginian (blue sea) (excellent quality image)
 
  Stevens HATS Postcards The following are new images of woven silk Hands Across The Sea postcards, added for the first time:
sh372 - RMS Campania (black silk tassles) (excellent quality image)
sh1282 - RMS Zeelend (USA/Scotland flags) (excellent quality image)
sh396 - RMS Cymric (black silk tassles) (excellent quality image)
sh676 - RMS Lusitania (red silk tassles) (excellent quality image)
sh692 - RMS Megantic (red silk tassles) (excellent quality image)
 
  Stevens Other Silk items The following new printed fan is recorded for the first time:
se626 - Printed fan - A Happy New Year - With tender thought I send thee here (excellent quality image)

And the following new printed card additions:
se800-017 - Wishing you many happy returns of the day (excellent quality image)
se800-020 - Forget me not (excellent quality image)
se800-022 - Wishing you many happy returns of the day (reasonable quality image)

 
  Cash's Bookmarks The following are new images to go with titles previously recorded:
cash-bm0018 - {no words - Giraffe} (Card with attached mini-bookmark:) (reasonable quality image)
cash-bm0030 - {no words - Duck} (Card with attached mini-bookmark:) (reasonable quality image)
cash-bm0053 - {no words - Fairy with hearts} (Card with attached mini-bookmark:) (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0079 - {no words - Sunflower Blue: stylised flowers} (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0097 - {no words - Christmas tree (with garlands)} (Card with attached mini-bookmark:) (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0119 - 1963 - 2003 40 years Abbeyfield Coventry (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0134 - Alveston Manor (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0141 - Apollon international Neutral Otafuku Green Magma (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0178 - Botley Primary School 1938 - 1998 (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0508 - Pretty angel (Card with attached mini-bookmark:) (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0563 - Season of mists [Part 3 of the Seasons Set - Autumn] (dahlias, Keats quote) (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0663 - To a very special Grandma (Poppies) (2004) (excellent quality image)
 
  Cash's Greetings cards The following is a new title and image, kindly made available, with permission, from the CASH's own web site:
cash-card0410 - The Divine Weaver (excellent quality image)

The following are new titles and images added for the first time:
cash-card0396 - Mother (woven words with rose) (excellent quality image)
cash-card0104 - 18th Birthday (excellent quality image)
cash-card0411 - With love on St. Valentine's Day (excellent quality image)
cash-card0409 - Father Christmas going down chimney (excellent quality image)
cash-card0408 - Lady with parcels (excellent quality image)
cash-card0407 - Great Tits on snow branch (excellent quality image)
cash-card0294 - Dragonfly & Waterlily on a lake (excellent quality image)
cash-card0295 - Honey bee on a flower (excellent quality image)
cash-card0372 - Poppies In a Cornfield (excellent quality image)
cash-card0373 - Shells on a seashore (excellent quality image)
cash-card0370 - Tasmania - Cradle Mountain (excellent quality image)

And the following are images added for the first time to titles previously recorded:
cash-card0120 - To a very special Friend {woven words} (excellent quality image)
cash-card0145 - Open Door with tree & wreath (excellent quality image)
cash-card0201 - Daisies (white with blue & yellow flowers) (excellent quality image)
cash-card0261 - Canterbury Bell (excellent quality image)
cash-card0267 - Lavender (excellent quality image)
cash-card0268 - Polyanthus & Grape Hyacinth (excellent quality image)

 
  Stevens Postcards This double postcard was probably only made available to the Stevens family, and probably never available to the general public. It is recorded here for completeness:-
sc14 - Sandell Stevens and Prince (excellent quality image)

The following titles have additional images added to improve the information presented:-
sc98 - Mater Dolorosa (excellent quality image)
sc212 - Cricket match scene (excellent quality image)

And the following are improved, replacement images for those previously recorded:-
sc149 - (Spanish Bullfight) - no title (excellent quality image)
sc198 - (The Water Jump) - no title (excellent quality image)

 
  Grant Bookmarks The following are new titles and images added for the first time to the Grant catalogue:
gb002 - 12th Annual Encampment / GAR / Pittsburg (excellent quality image)
gb107 - Souvenir of the British Section - Executive Staff in Chicago (excellent quality image)
 
  Grant Postcards The following are new titles and images added for the first time to the catalogue. With the first title however, the actual silk might not be of Grant manufacture:
gc266 - Souvenir of the Greater Cork Exhibition, 1903 (portrait of Leo XIII) (excellent quality image)
gc588-fb - Swallow Falls, Bettws-Y-Coed (Souvenir of the Franco-British Exhibition, 1908) (excellent quality image)
gc390 - British and French flags (Franco-British Exhibition, 1908) (excellent quality image)
gc668 - L'Entente cordiale - man on swan (excellent quality image)

The first two of the following are new images, kindly donated by the President of The Stevengraph Collectors Association, added for the first time to titles already recorded:
gc168 - For Queen and Country (Field-Marshall Lord Roberts) (excellent quality image)
gc344-fb - Greetings from Ireland (Souvenir of the Franco-British Exhibition, 1908) (excellent quality image)

 
  Grant Pictures The following are new images added to titles which were previously un-recorded:
gt140 - Bathing Beauty (untitled scene) (good quality image)
gt314 - Comin' thro' the rye (excellent quality image)
gt342 - Eastern scene (untitled scene) (excellent quality image)
gt596 - Souvenir of the Cork Exhibition, 1903 (Rapids Killarney) (excellent quality image)
gt605 - Souvenir of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893 (Administration Building) (excellent quality image)
gt630 - Stile, The (excellent quality image)

And the following are new images added for the first time to titles that were already recorded:
gt40 - A Present from the International Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1886 (comprising 'City of Edinburgh 1886 & City Arms', 'The Exhibition Building', 'The Band Stand', 'The Old Tolbooth', 'The Old Edinburgh Street', and 'The Netherbow Port') (reasonable quality image)

 
  Grant Portrait The following are new images added to titles which themselves were also new additions:
go282 - Shakespeare, William (Souvenir of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893) (reasonable quality image)
go299 - Wales, H.R.H. The Princess of (excellent quality image)
 
  Grant Other Items The following is a new title and images added to the Grant pin cushion list:
gr460 - Pin Cushion - Souvenir woven in the Columbian Exposition Chicago 1893 / (view on ship & men on beach) / Landing of Columbus Oct 12 1492 (excellent quality image)
 
  Stevens Portraits The following are new additions to the portrait catalogue, with good quality images:
so37ag - Archer, The Late Fred (Duke of Westminster colours) - Allen & Ginter's advertising (excellent quality image)
so41ag - Archer, The Late Fred (Mr Peck colours) - Allen & Ginter's advertising (excellent quality image)
 
  Stevens Pictures The following are new additions to the picture catalogue, with good quality images:
st220ag - First Train (The) - Allen & Ginter's advertising (excellent quality image)
st264m - Good Old Days (The) - winter landscape - JJ Mannion Credit (excellent quality image)
 
 
27 October 2024 Grant Other Silk items The following new rosette is recorded for the first time. Both the ribbons making up this rosette were issued individually as bookmarks, with the Grover Cleveland bookmark already recorded on this site:
gr150 - Rosette - Grover & Mrs Cleveland (excellent quality image)
 
  Cash's Bookmarks The following titles and images are new additions of bookmarks made by CASH'S for the American market:
cash-bm0786 - Bicentennial 1776-1976 (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0783 - BOOKMARK - A place you like to remember (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0784 - The Canadian Legion of the British Empire Service League (excellent quality image)

Whilst the following are new images added for the first time to pre-existing titles:
cash-bm0565 - Sedgefield Co Durham (excellent quality image)
cash-bm0785 - William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616 (with additional wording) (excellent quality image)

 
  Stevens Bookmarks The title, HRH Prince of Wales has been recorded for some time, although now, Jenni Redman has kindly provided me with a new image of this bookmark, but without the woven title on the front:
sb259 - H.R.H. The Prince of Wales (excellent quality image)
Jenni also provided me with the following image of a bookmark, almost identical to sb1020, except this version does not have the additional decoration either side of the top heart shape:
sb310 - I believe in God the Father (with inverted heart at top) (excellent quality image)

Graham Parker has donated an image of the blue background silk version with the following title:
sb549 - Shakespere / Obit Ano Doi 1616 . . (excellent quality image)

The following is a new title added for the first time to the bookmark catalogue:
sb119 - Benjamin Harrison (President) (excellent quality image)

For some time, there has been recorded an image of a favour with King Edward VII full face. There is now recorded, with the same registration number, a similar favour with the King facing half left:
sb255 - H.M. Edward VII - facing half left (favour) (excellent quality image)

And this is also a new title added for the first time, although as it is unknown how this bookmark is signed on the reverse, it is possible it is not of Stevens manufacture:
sb591 - Streets Collection July 16, 1892 (reasonable quality image)

Similarly, the following is a new title added for the first time, although as the top of the silk is missing, it is possible the title is incorrect. It is also unknown how the silk is signed on the reverse, although as there is a great deal of similarity to another Stevens bookmark, it seems reasonable to assume it is of his manufacture:
sb731 - To one / I love /(flowers, with words below: To One I Love) / Emblem fair to you I send (good quality image)

 
  Bollans bookmarks The President of the Stevengraph Collectors Association has kindly donated the following titles and images, which are new additions for the first time to the catalogue:
obo636 - THY WILL BE DONE My God, My Father . . (excellent quality image)
obo727 - WITH BEST WISHES / (white lily flowers) / Think truly, and . . (excellent quality image)

And the following is also a new additions, added for the first time:
obo74 - A Blessing / May your lot be . . (excellent quality image)

 
  Welch & Lenton bookmarks Jenni Redman kindly provided me with images and details of the following bookmark which had not previously been recorded, and is hence a new addition to this catalogue:
owe102 - A HAPPY CHRISTMAS / Though times . . . (excellent quality image)
And Jenni also provided me with this image of a bookmark title already recorded, but until now, with no image:
owe624 - THE LORDS PRAYER (excellent quality image)

And Graham Parker has provided an additional image in a different coloured silk for the following W&L bookmark:
owe184 - BIRTHDAY WISH / Dear one 'tis my wish . . (excellent quality image)

The following is an improved quality replacement image for a title previously recorded:
owe232 - COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON / A HAPPY CHRISTMAS . . . (excellent quality image)
Whilst this is an additional image in a different background colour:
owe570 - Remember Me / When This You See . . . (excellent quality image)

 
  Marshall, Morgan & Scott bookmarks Graham Parker has kindly given me quality images of the following three silks, and none of these titles had previously been recorded, so are added for the first time:
omm15 - Be of good courage (excellent quality image)
omm115 - Trust in the Lord with all thine heart (excellent quality image)
omm130 - We Love Him, because He first loved us (excellent quality image)

In addition, the following new title is also added for the first time:
omm25 - Give attendance to reading (excellent quality image)

 
  Brough, Nicholson & Hall bookmark The following is a variation on the more traditional version bookmark, with the words at the pointed end being different, and whilst it is unknown how it is signed on the reverse, it seems almost certain it was made by BN&H:
obn61 - Bookmark - Marriage of HRH Princess Elizabeth. C.I. with Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten R.N. / Westminster Abbey (excellent quality image)
 
  Mulloney & Johnson bookmark Graham Parker has kindly given me an additional, colour variation of the following bookmark:
omu40 - Bookmark - I believe in God (The Apostles Creed) (excellent quality image)
 
  Franklin & Sons bookmark The following is a new image added for the first time to a title already recorded in the Franklin catalogue:
ofr154 - Trinity College Dublin (excellent quality image)
 
  Berisfords The following are new bookmark titles and images added for the first time to the Berisfords catalogue:
obe231 - Christmas Greetings (excellent quality image)
obe235 - Christmas / We three Kings (excellent quality image)
obe237 - Congleton Carnival (excellent quality image)
obe265 - Knebworth House / Edward Bulwer-Lytton (excellent quality image)
obe309 - To Mark the Bi-Centenary of Newcastle Methodist Church (excellent quality image)
obe315 - Wigan Pier (excellent quality image)

And pictures added to titles already recorded:
obe22 - Bluetit (excellent quality image)
obe32 - Owl with castle in background (excellent quality image)

 
  Mellor Bros. bookmark The following is a new title and image added for the first time:
ome7 - Bookmark: 1976 Calendar (excellent quality image)
 
 


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