Stevengraphs, Bookmarks & Post Cards etc.

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Journal of Society of Arts - South Kensington Exhibition..."Mr Thomas Stevens (Stevengraphs) evidently possesses a restless spirit not easily subdued and if the tide threatens to leave him for a time, he digs out a new channel for himself and thus he has created a trade peculiarly his own. I have taken unusual interest in his productions, not only in the goods but in the looms producing them and I find that to make a 'Forester's Scarf' as exhibited, 2 1/2 yards long and 6 1/4 inches wide, requires the use of 16,000 perforated cards to make the figure which is 15 inches long and for the plain part 14,000 cards, making a total of 30,000 cards. The number of threads in the warp of each scarf is 1,800 and there are 15 different colours in the shutes: the numbers are multiplied by the number of pieces being made at once; so that if 10 pieces were making, 18,000 threads of warp would be in the loom. Hence the involved and to the untrained eye, the inextricable confusion of threads, as shown in the harness of the loom". - Aug 8th 1873

The Financial Reformer - Seven years ago, it would have been impossible for this country to have produced such looms, or such work - Aug 1st 1870