Anna Atkins Large Book Necklace: Cystoseira fibrosa available-collection This simple and enduring tote

This simple and enduring tote is constructed of waxed canvas and vegetable-tanned leather

Made by hand in collaboration with Priya Means Love

Our little Walnut and leather jewelry boxes are handmade out of scrap vegetable-tanned leather and sustainable wood leftovers from treasures made in our shop

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She created thousands of cyanotype prints and sent them to libraries and other institutions in the mid-1800s for their collections – many of which remain today

Anna Atkins Large Book Necklace: Cystoseira fibrosa available-collection This simple and enduring toteThis 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