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Title: WWI French manufactured silk embroidered postcard - Souvenir de Lille
Authors: Williams, Joe
Keywords: WWI
First World War
World War One
British Army
Postcard
Floral Embroidery
Lille
Issue Date: 1914
Description: During WW1, silk postcards were bought as souvenirs by soldiers from local French and Belgian women. The women embroidered the different motifs onto strips of silk which were sent to factories to make postcards. This example has embossed edges and is made of two pieces of silk sewn and mounted to form an envelope which would have originally contained a card. It bears the message "Souvenir de Lille"
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10599/11445
Copyright: Reproduced by kind permission of Joe Williams. If you wish to reproduce this image please contact South Dublin Libraries Local Studies, County Library, Tallaght, or e-mail localstudies@sdublincoco.ie.
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World War I

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