Anna Atkins Large Book Necklace: Mesogloia purpurea knives Treated with Bartram Wood Balm

Treated with Bartram Wood Balm

FEVER FEW (tanecetum parthenium)

engraved within is the phrase

They are elegant and clean

also show – with dirt and bendy corners – all of the love and travels his books endured

Anna Atkins Large Book Necklace: Mesogloia purpurea knives Treated with Bartram Wood BalmThis limited large book necklace features one of Anna Atkins seaweed cyanotypes laser engraved on antique leather. Anna Atkins was the first person to use photography to illustrate a book. Note NOT the first woman, but the first human! She was an incredible illustrator and had illustrated some books for her father, but the discovery of Cyanotypes sent her into a new obsession. She began making photographic images of her extensive seaweed collection in