Name/Title
souvenir bookmarkEntry/Object ID
006.015.001Description
006.15.1
Rose-pink cardstock folder [vertical orientation] printed in white with” [the Prince of Wales three feathers cipher]/The/Marriage/of/Prince Charles/and Lady/Diana Spencer/Wednesday/ 29th July 1981/A Commemorative/Woven Bookmark”. Overleaf is white background, printed in rose pink with the Garter emblem centred with a “C”. Facing page is pink and has attached to it a woven bookmark in a cellophane folder. Bookmark is made of silk, or silk-like fibre and has white diamond cross-hatched background. Side borders are intertwined ribbons, picked out in dark blue. Top border of thistles in dark blue and pink, centred with a pink rose with a pendant blue-outlined shamrock. Pointed bottom border same as top, but with the addition of a daffodil at each end. Central image is of Charles and Diana in greys, on a shaded pink background. Image encircled with blue laurel wreath, tied at sides and bottom with pink lacing and finished at top with three-feather Prince of Wales cipher in white, pink and blue. Inscription in cursive blue writing reads: “Their/Royal Highnesses/The/Prince & Princess/of Wales// Saint Paul’s/Cathedral/29th July 1981”. Back is rose pink and printed in bottom area in white: “Approximately 3,000 ‘Jacquard cards’ [I. Jones – the technique used to weave this bookmark] are/needed to produce this design and each/bookmark takes nearly one hour to weave./ The Victorian art-form of miniature silk pictures and bookmarks known as Stevengraphs and eagerly collected by connoisseurs is now carried on by J. & J./ Cash Ltd. – sole survivor of a distinguished/line of Coventry weavers.//Cashs English Woven Craft/ Kingfield Road, Coventry CV1 4DU, England.”Acquisition
Notes
Mode of Acquisition: giftLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
BookmarkNomenclature Sub-Class
Writing AccessoriesNomenclature Class
Written Communication T&ENomenclature Category
Category 06: Tools & Equipment for CommunicationLegacy Lexicon
Object Name
souvenir bookmarkCreated By
Jones, IsabelCreate Date
June 6, 2007Update Date
October 2, 2025