The John Bright Collection owns a number of items made from fabrics block-printed by the textile company Crysède to the designs of its owner Alec Walker in the 1920s and 1930s.Although this handkerchief has not been positively identified as a Crysède design, the distinctive style in which the beach scene has been rendered in bright, non-naturalistic colours on a flat plane makes this highly likely. Unsurprisingly, given Crysède’s Cornish location, Alec Walker based a number of his designs upon local coastal scenes – ‘Godrevy’, a beach near St Ives with its famous lighthouse, ‘Mounts Bay’ near Penzance, in which St. Michael’s Mount can be made out alongside passing ships, and ‘Newlyn Harbour’ for a silk headsquare, the harbour design fitted into each quarter. (See ‘Godrevy’ and ‘Mounts Bay’ at Penlee House Museum, Penzance https://www.penleehouse.org.uk/collections/item/PEZPH:2006.52 , https://www.penleehouse.org.uk/collections/item/PEZPH:1995.138) Many of the fabrics were seen to their best made into full garments, nevertheless smaller items such as scarves, handkerchiefs and other accessories were popular items of stock in the Crysède shops.