Silk Rose
by Elaine Teague
Title
Silk Rose
Artist
Elaine Teague
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Scanned from silk embroidery inserted into Kensitas cigarette pack in the 1930's.
Produced in the 1930’s, Kensitas cards were woven in silk and depicted popular garden flowers of the day. Each silk came inside its own protective cover that included the growing information, history, and background of each plant, as well as an ad for the product.
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March 7th, 2022
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Comments (4)
Deane Palmer
Great photography. I love these off beat images of thing I know nothing about. ? How big are the silk artworks. I grew up in a household/family of non smokers so no very little about cigarette cards.
Elaine Teague replied:
I can't find my originals. I put them in too safe a place, but this is the info I got from https://kensitasflowers.co.uk/sizes.htm. SMALL - Given away with 10 cigarettes and made to fit inside the packet, measuring 4cm. wide and 6.75 cm. high MEDIUM - Given away with 20 cigarettes again fitting inside the packet and measuring 5.5 cm. wide and 7.5 cm. high. As albums were available to insert the printed fabric I guess they were intended as collectables like many images on card that were given away in cigarette packets.
Louise Merigot
Wow! I have never heard of that, Elaine. So each piece was hand made! Lovely little treasure, albeit from a cigarette box. :) l.f.
Elaine Teague replied:
There's a few around in people's collections. I have four different ones. They must've been machine embroidered because there were so many of them.
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