Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #3 adam and eve this great old handmade donkey

this great old handmade donkey

as the lid sits at just the slightest bit off square (maybe 1-2 degrees)

still super useful as a pin cushion

or re-papered

This is about the loveliest little watercolor of the sea that I think I’ve ever seen

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #3 adam and eve this great old handmade donkeyThis is one of a handful of small seaweed pressings I purchased together, which I think are just exquisitely beautiful! A few of them, like this one, are signed and dated at bottom, others initialed on , so they represent the work of a few different people, most likely young women, among whom seaweed collecting and pressing was quite the thing during the Victorian era. I love the fact that making these represented not just a burgeoning interest in the