Stevengraph

Stevengraphs are pictures woven from silk, originally created by Thomas Stevens in the 19th century.

[1] In the mid-19th century the town of Coventry, England, was the centre of a ribbon weaving industry.

Thomas Stevens, a local weaver, responded by adapting the Jacquard looms used in Coventry to weave colourful pictures from silk.

In the late 1950s it emerged that Henry Stephens, a descendant of Thomas, had saved one of the pattern books the night before the attack and kept it in safe storage; Henry donated it to the Coventry City Council, who in turn entrusted it with the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum.

Several other Coventry firms also produced silk-work pictures including W H Grant and Welch & Lambton.