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STEVENGRAPH, GRANT AND OTHER
VICTORIAN SILK

 
Who made these silks? A new section has been added to this site, in which I include images of silks that seem to be from the Victorian period or early 1900's, but we do not know who made them. Can you help identify who made them?
last updated 19 June 2010 - details of all the silks we cannot identify. Can you help?
 
 
10 December 2011 Grant Silk Postcards The following images have been added to the existing Grant silk postcard catalogue:
gc120-fb - Vice Admiral Lord Charles Beresford (Souvenir of the Franco-British Exhibition, 1908) (good quality image)
gc406-fb - un-named ship-as Lusitania (Souvenir of the Franco-British Exhibition, 1908) (good quality image)
 
  Stevens Silk Bookmarks Images have been added to the following previously recorded Stevens silk bookmark titles:
sb524 - Christ and Comradeship (reasonable quality image)
 
  Stevens Silk Portraits Images have been added to the following previously recorded Stevens silk portrait titles:
so80 - Barratt, F. (good quality image)
 
 
30 November 2011 J. Pratt & Sons A new weaver, J. Pratt & Sons has been added to this web site. In doing so however, there is doubt as to whether they were weavers at all, and in addition that Darlington (who was recorded in June 2010 as a weaver) was also probably not a weaver.
The only known silks of Darlington, odr 4, and the new silk from Pratt, opr 4, are identical (other than for the weavers name). It is hence probably that this silk was made by some third weaver for sale to various outlets.
 
  Caldicott Silk Bookmarks The following previously unrecorded new title has been added to the Caldicott catalogue:
oca60 - Bookmark: A Prosperous (image of Christmas) And A Happy New Year (excellent quality image)
 
  G. Holme, Derby Silk Bookmark An image is now available to go with the following existing title in the Holme catalogue:
oho4 - Bookmark titled: Midland Counties Fine Arts and Industrial Exhibition, Derby, 1870 / All Saints Church, Derby (reasonable quality image)
 
  Welch & Lenton Bookmarks Images have been added to the following existing titles in the Welch & Lenton silk bookmark catalogue:
owe404 - I Wish you A Happy New Year / I stood . . (reasonable quality image)
owe424 - I WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS / I stood with delight . . (reasonable quality image)
owe700 - Unto You Is Born This Day . . . / (angel) / Glory to God of the Highest (reasonable quality image)
 
  Bollans Bookmarks Images have been added to the following existing titles in the Bollans silk bookmark catalogue:
obo656 - TO MY COUSIN / (flowers) / I'd have your life . . (reasonable quality image)
 
  J. Matthews Silk Bookmarks The following title had previously been recorded in the Matthews catalogue. Now that an image is available, we can see that the design is identical to that of Caldicott, thereby providing evidence to support the previous statement that Matthews as probably not a weaver at all, but a third party outlet:
oma4 - ENGLAND'S HOPE / (portrait) / PRINCE ALBERT EDWARD / PRINCESS ALEXANDRA (excellent quality image)
 
  Dalton & Barton silks An image has now been added to the following previously recorded title in the Dalton & Barton catalogue:
oda40 - Bookmark entitled 'Her Majesty Queen Victoria' (reasonable quality image)
 
  Mulloney & Johnson silks Mulloney & Johnson produced a Shakespearian badge comprising three silks held together with a button. The badge has been recorded for some time on this site. Georg Hartong has very kindly given me the images of the three individual silks:
omu10 - silk with portrait of Shakespeare and words 'Tercentenary / Commemorated April 23 1864' (registered 9 January 1864) (excellent quality image)
omu12 - silk with words 'Died April 23 / Stratford on Avon, 1616' (registered 27 January 1864) (excellent quality image)
omu14 - silk with words 'Birthplace / Born April 23, 1564' (excellent quality image)
 
  Stevens Silk Bookmarks Improved, replacement images have been added to the following previously recorded silks:
sb230 - A merry Christmas / (Old Father Christmas) / And a Happy New Year (excellent quality image)
 
  Stevens Other Silk Items This section is now starting to be used, with the following new additions:
se001 - Ribbon with words: H.M.S. Duncan (excellent quality image)
 
 
20 October 2011 Welch & Lenton Bookmarks The following two titles are new additions to the Welch & Lenton silk bookmark catalogue:
Georg has continued to donate images to this web site, including this new title -
owe414 - I WISH YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR / (wreath with words) / NEW YEARS WISH . . (excellent quality image)
and following a donation from a Stevengraph Collectors Association member, the following new title has also been added:
owe244 - Forget-me-not / Forget Me Not / While Life Remains . . . (excellent quality image)

and Georg has also donated the following images to be added to titles within the existing catalogue:
owe220 - Christ bearing His Cross (excellent quality image)
owe252 - FORGET ME NOT / Reflecting from . . (excellent quality image)
owe256 - FORGET ME NOT / (flowers) / There is a flower . . (excellent quality image)
owe332 - HAPPY MAY THY birthday be / (wreath) / The return . . (excellent quality image)
owe504 - MIZPAH / THE LORD WATCH . . (with fern leaves) (excellent quality image)
owe548 - MY WISH / (street scene) / Kind words can never die (excellent quality image)

 
  Stevens Silk Bookmarks Georg has identified two new titles to be added to the Stevens bookmark catalogue, and provided the following images:
sb835 - God Defends The Right (excellent quality image)
sb2077 - The Most Hon. The Marquis of Salisbury (primula) (excellent quality image)

Georg has also donated the following images to be added to titles within the existing Stevens bookmark catalogue:
sb112 - A blessing / May Heaven's blessing e'er attend thee (excellent quality image)
sb168 - A happy Christmas to you / (Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus, angel) / God's angels stooped in bright array (excellent quality image)
sb380 - Attleborough Church / The Rev. J.R. Quirk, M.A. / The Parsonage (excellent quality image)
sb460 - Botany Heads / Captain Cook (excellent quality image)
sb554 - Communion (full size bookmark) (excellent quality image)
sb1356 - May our hearts be united / O learn to love, the lesson (excellent quality image)
sb1792 - Shakespeare. Stratford. Birthplace (set of three narrow ribbons) (excellent quality image)

and also images of existing recorded silks, but with different background colours:
sb664 - Evening hymn / And now another day is gone (elaborate scrollwork top & bottom & spires at top) (Excellent quality image)
sb1808 - He so Sepulchred in such pomp doth lie / Stratford Church (no Stevens trademark) (excellent quality image)>

 
  Grant Silk Bookmarks

Georg Hartong has also provided me with an image of the following previously unrecorded Grant silk bookmark, and as a result, the title has now been added to the Grant bookmark catalogue:
gb210 - City of Edinburgh, 1886 / The Netherbow Port / (Coat of Arms) / Peace hath her victories . . / International Industrial Exhibition (excellent quality image)

 
 
10 July 2011 Grant Silk Bookmarks

The following images have been added to the existing Grant silk bookmarker catalogue:
gb153 - Calendar - 1953 (excellent quality image)
gb1942 - Souvenir / Machinery Hall / Area 17 acres, Cost $1,200,000 / (building, lake with gondola) / Woven in the Columbian Exposition Chicago 1893 (excellent quality image)
gb1980 - Souvenir of the Franco British Exhibition / (Court of Honour: no gondola) / London 1908 (excellent quality image)
gb2160 - Souvenir woven in the Columbian Exposition Chicago 1893 / (building) / Administration Building (excellent quality image)

 
  Grant Silk Pictures The following titles and images are new additions to the Grant silk picture catalogue:
gt452 - Keep on smiling (verse mounted on card for hanging) (excellent quality image)
gt792 - When down in the mouth (verse mounted on card for hanging) (excellent quality image)

The following images have been added to existing titles of the Grant silk pictures catalogue:
gt102 - All Hallows Church (excellent quality image)
gt256 - Calendar 1956 - Cleopatra (excellent quality image)
gt516 - Old Bishopsgate (excellent quality image)
gt820 - Ye Olde Tyne Bridge (reasonable quality image)

 
  Bollans Bookmarks Georg has continued to donate images to this web site. The following is a new title added to the Bollans silk bookmark catalogue:
obo138 - A NEW YEAR'S GIFT / (flowers) / This comes with the . . . (excellent quality image)

and the following image has been added to titles within the existing catalogue:
obo648 - TO MY BROTHER / DEAR BROTHER . . (excellent quality image)

 
 
12 June 2011 Grant Silk Postcards The following title and image is a new addition to the Grant silk postcard catalogue:
gc2 - H. M. King Edward VII (Reg. no. 370718) - no title (excellent quality image)

The following images have been added to the existing Grant silk postcard catalogue:
gc76 - H. M. King George V (Reg. No. 574478) - not title (excellent quality image)
gc240-lc - Court of Honour (large card with green border) (excellent quality image)
gc324 - Greetings from the Liverpool Exhibition 1913 (hands shaking) (reasonable quality image)
gc356 - Greetings from Rawal Pindi, India (Hands across the sea) (excellent quality image)
gc468-fb - The Flip-Flap (Souvenir of the Franco-British Exhibition, 1908) (excellent quality image)
gc468-lc - The Flip-Flap (larger card with green border) (excellent quality image)
gc508-fb - Houses of Parliament (Souvenir of the Franco-British Exhibition, 1908) (excellent quality image)
gc517 - Kenilworth Castle - title printed on card (reasonable quality image)
gc556-lc - Coventry (large card with green border) (excellent quality image)
gc592 - Stonehenge - woven title (excellent quality image)
gc708 - Auld lang syne (with music and words) (excellent quality image)
gc828 - Lead kindly light (with music and verse) (excellent quality image)
gc860 - With Best Wishes for a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year (reasonable quality image)

 
  Webster & Butterworth Silks Georg Hartong has unearthed a new weaver, Webster & Butterworth, previously un-recorded on this site. There is only one bookmark known to have been made by this weaver:
owb4 - Bookmark titled: Preston Guild 1902 (excellent quality image)
 
  Stevens Large Souvenir Silks Georg has also given me a good quality image of the following rare, early large souvenir silk:-
su12 - The Oxford Martyr's Memorial To the memory of the illustrious Prelates who suffered Martyrdom in the City of Oxford in 1555-56 (excellent quality image)
 
 
15 May 2011 Stevens Silk Bookmarks

Georg Hartong has continued his support of this web site, with the following:

Firstly, images of bookmark titles not previously recorded:
sb285 - A tribute of affection / (ribbon with words: I Love Thee) / I will love thee fond and true (excellent quality image)
sb1133 - Je suis L'Immaculee conception / Conceptio Immaculata Sum / Soy La Immaculada Concepcion (excellent quality image)
sb2185 - Thy Bridal Day / (floral display with words: A Souvenir) / Dear friends may this your wedding morn (excellent quality image)

Secondly, with new images to add to the existing Stevens bookmark catalogue:
sb196 - A Happy New Year / May blessings rest (excellent quality image)
sb244 - A merry Christmas and a Happy New Year / I wish you (excellent quality image)
sb372 - Any profession of Jesus Christ (excellent quality image)
sb1132 - Je suis L'Immaculee conception / Conceptio Immaculata Sum (excellent quality image)
sb1284 - Many happy returns of the day / May its presence (excellent quality image)
sb2072 - The Lord will Provide (lengthways) (excellent quality image)
sb2584 - With every good wish / Sweet and peaceful be thy life (excellent quality image)

And thirdly, images of different coloured background silks:
sb980 - (leaves) / Home sweet home / (more leaves and formal country house - no music) (excellent quality image)
sb1800 - Shakespeare's / Tercentenary Commemoration April 23rd, 1864 / The Bard of Avon (excellent quality image)
sb1828 - Should auld aquaintance be forgot / . . . / Robert Burns (excellent quality image)
sb2184 - Thy Bridal Day / (floral display) / Dear friends may this your wedding morn (excellent quality image)
sb2444 - We praise thee O God (excellent quality image)

 
 
 
23 January 2011 Stevens Silk Pictures György Tóth, Hungary has very kindly provided me with the following new images to add to the existing catalogue of Stevens silk pictures:
st60 - Called to the Rescue - no sub title (excellent quality image)
st548 - Spanish Bull Fight (excellent quality image)

He has also kindly provided me with the following improved images of Stevens silk pictures, to replace those already recorded:
st44 - Are you Ready? (excellent quality image)
st192 - Finish (The) (excellent quality image)
st216 - First Touch (The) (excellent quality image)
st248 - Full Cry (excellent quality image)
st260 - Good Old Days (The) - no background (excellent quality image)
st428 - Meet (The) (excellent quality image)
st556 - Start (The) (excellent quality image)

 
  Stevens Triple Title Silk Pictures György has also provided me with an image for one of the very rare Stevens Triple Title silk pictures:
st678 - THE PRESENT TIME / AUJOURD 'HUI / JETZT (excellent quality image)
 
  Stevens Silk Bookmarks The Lancaster Public Library, Lancaster, PA. has sent me the following image to add to the existing Stevens silk bookmark catalogue:
sb2392 - Trust in Jesus / Happy, Saviour, would I be (excellent quality image)
 
 
  Welch & Lenton bookmarks

Georg has also continued his support of this web site, with the following images added to the existing Welch & Lenton bookmark catalogue:
owe148 - A WISH / I WOULD NOT WISH THEE WEALTH ALONE . . (excellent quality image)
owe664 - TO MY FRIEND / (floral cross) / Sweet and peaceful . . (excellent quality image)
owe704 - We Praise Thee O God (excellent quality image)

And these images of different coloured background silks:
owe61 - A / BLESSING / (flowers) / May heaven's blessing . . (excellent quality image)
owe576 - Rock of Ages with 3 verses (excellent quality image)

 
 
28 November 2010 W. Perkins Georg Hartong continues to support this web site, as can be seen below with all the new images he has kindly donated.
In addition, Georg has also sent me an image of a bookmark produced by W. Perkins, in collaboration with Owen Bros.
Perkins is a new weaver for this site, and has been added as W.Perkins.
Owen Bros. worked closely with Caldicott on many of their bookmarks, and due to the bookmark below having been made by Perkins, and designed by Owen Bros, this means that Perkins must also have been a Victorian silk weaver. Godden however does not mention them, and the following bookmark is the only title so far recorded:
ope4 - Bookmark with words: 'In Thee O Lord Do I Trust' (excellent quality image)
 
 
  Bollans Bookmarks Georg has also continued to donate images to this web site. The following is a new addition to the Bollans silk bookmark catalogue:
obo264 - (wreath with words: Forget Me Not) / (flowers with ribbon: This simple flower . . .) (excellent quality image)

and the following images have been added to titles within the existing catalogue:
obo64 - (flowers) / (wreath with words: A Blessing / May Heaven's Blessings . . (excellent quality image)
obo180 - BIRTHDAY GREETING / (flowers) / I wish this day . . (excellent quality image)
obo680 - To one I Love / (flowers) / Like the dazzling light . . (excellent quality image)

 
  Welch & Lenton Bookmarks Georg has also kindly provided me with the following new additions to the Welch & Lenton bookmark catalogue, together with quality images:
owe565 - Remember Me / Cherish with supreme affection . . . (excellent quality image)
owe660 - TO MY FATHER / (flowers) / My Father, I can ne'er forget (excellent quality image)
owe672 - TO MY MOTHER / (flowers) / How often dear . . (excellent quality image)
owe686 - TRUE LOVE / When nearer or absent . . . (excellent quality image)
owe696 - Unto us a Child is Born (excellent quality image)

as well as quality images to the following titles which already exist in the catalogue:
owe32 - A BIRTHDAY WISH / (flowers) / Dear friend tis my wish . . (excellent quality image)
owe92 - A HAPPY BIRTHDAY / Softly I greet the . . (excellent quality image)
owe444 - LOVE'S OFFERING (excellent quality image)
owe560 - Nearer my God to Thee (excellent quality image)
owe656 - TO MY COUSIN / (flowers) / I'd have your life . . (excellent quality image)
owe744 - Your Birthday / (roses) / MANY HAPPY RETURNS . . (excellent quality image)

 
  Stevens Silk Bookmarks Georg has also given me the following images to add to the existing Stevens bookmark catalogue:
sb392 - Ave Maria / Ora Pro Nobis / I.H.S. (excellent quality image)
sb1896 - Spurgeon (portrait facing forward, without beard) (excellent quality image)
sb2316 - To my friend / (flowers with words: To my friend) / Could I bring this lovely rose (excellent quality image)
sb2390 - (Flowers) / (Oval device with words: True love) / True love is something . . (excellent quality image)

And these images of different coloured background silks:
sb1560 - Our Father which art in heaven (The Lord's Prayer) (excellent quality image)

 


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