What's New in Stevengraph-SilksThe Home of Stevens, Grant and Other Victorian Silk weavers |
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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? | |||
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: | |||
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: And the following are images added for the first time to titles previously recorded: | |||
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:- And the following are improved, replacement images for those previously recorded:- | |||
Grant Bookmarks | The following are new titles and images added for the first time to the Grant catalogue: gb10 - 12th Annual Encampment / GAR / Pittsburg (excellent quality image) gb1965 - 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: | |||
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: | |||
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: | |||
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: sb862 - 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: sb1018 - 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:
The following is a new title added for the first time to the bookmark catalogue:
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:
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:
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: | |||
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: | |||
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:
The following is an improved quality replacement image for a title previously recorded: | |||
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: | |||
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: obe247 - Christmas Greetings (excellent quality image) obe252 - Christmas / We three Kings (excellent quality image) obe254 - Congleton Carnival (excellent quality image) obe280 - Knebworth House / Edward Bulwer-Lytton (excellent quality image) obe325 - To Mark the Bi-Centenary of Newcastle Methodist Church (excellent quality image) obe333 - Wigan Pier (excellent quality image)
And pictures added to titles already recorded: | |||
Mellor Bros. bookmark | The following is a new title and image added for the first time: ome7 - Bookmark: 1976 Calendar (excellent quality image) | |||
1 July 2024 | Grant Portraits | The following is a new image added for the first time to the title already recorded: go180 - Edward VII, His Majesty King: (crown & medal) (excellent quality image) | ||
Cash's Bookmarks | The following title and image is a new addition of American bookmarks made by CASH'S: cash-bm0782 - Royal Canadian Mounted Police (excellent quality image) And the following images have been added for the first time to titles already recorded in the catalogue: With the following images having been replaced with improved versions: | |||
Cash's Pictures | The following is a new title and image added for the first time to the catalogue: cash-picture0421 - Great Spotted Woodpecker with Great Tit (excellent quality image) | |||
Stevens Bookmarks | The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry has kindly provided my with the following images to go with titles not previously recorded: sb491 - CE / Hinckley & District Rally (excellent quality image) sb538 - Cleveland and South Durham Christian Endeavour Union (excellent quality image) sb690 - Fear not for it is I they loose & bind in heaven (excellent quality image) sb1909 - Street Collection Sept 6th 1884 (excellent quality image) Together with the following images to go with titles already recorded but for which there was previously no image: And the Herbert also provided the following greatly improved quality images to replace existing ones: | |||
Stevens Other Woven items | The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum has also provided details and image of the following new title, added to the catalogue for the first time: se007 - Ribbon with words: No Surrender (excellent quality image) | |||
Stevens Pictures | And the Herbert also gave me images to go with the following picture titles, both of which already exist in the catelogue: st452 - Paris-Magasins Du Bon Marche (picture of Bon Marche building) (excellent quality image) st524 - Sha. Maison Du Phenix Sha (picture of Eiffel Tower) (excellent quality image) | |||
Stevens Portraits | And the Herbert also gave permission to use the following portrait silk images: so236 - Elisabeth, Kaiserin (excellent quality image) so526 - Victoria, Kronprinzessin (excellent quality image) | |||