Stevengraph bookmark with poem, 1874
date: label: Date made
content: 1874-12-02
name: label: maker
content: Thomas Stevens
label: manufacturer
content: Thomas Stevens
notes: label: Description
content: Stevengraph bookmark, compound weave of white silk warp with silk weft in white, two blues, red, green, and yellow. Design is a poem with images substituted for some of the words; for example, an image of a bow is substituted for the word "beau". Bookmark is turned under and glued at the bottom edge to form a point; a tassel is sewn to the point. Registered 89. Dec. 2, 1874. Thomas Stevens, Coventry, England. Jacquard woven bookmarks and pictures were both an expression of technical virtuosity for textile manufacturers and a popular novelty item for consumers.
label: Description
content: ATHM Collection: Gift of Mrs. Edward Douglass
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: manufacturer
content: United Kingdom: England, Coventry, Coventry
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: American Textile History Museum Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0232.03
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0232.03
label: accession number
content: 2017.0232
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bookmark
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: compound weave; jacquard woven (overall production method/technique)