Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressings, Isle of Wight, #4 (A Pair) victorian old maid and one blank page) plus

and one blank page) plus a few pages of old notes tucked in

best known for her wood engravings like this one

I'd use this beautiful shino glazed tea bowl or chawan (I believe it is a chawan rather than a yunomi

9" tall x 6 1/4" at widest

The paper has darkened some with age

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressings, Isle of Wight, #4 (A Pair) victorian old maid and one blank page) plusThese two small seaweed pressings are among a handfulI purchased together, which I think are just exquisitely beautiful! A few of them are signed and dated at bottom, others initialed on back (the smaller of these two is initialed C. A. S), 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