Beautiful Old Woven Metal Trivet salad servers deep and even basketweave texture

deep and even basketweave texture

Front cover is long gone and the book is plenty worn and aged (making it feel all the more like the last copy in the world)

and that it once had a handle for carrying that was attached to the sides

This vase is the perfect size to use all of the time

with light wear to the wood as documented

Beautiful Old Woven Metal Trivet salad servers deep and even basketweave textureI really love this thing, which I believe was made to be a trivet, woven of cut metal strips of varying lengths, folded over at the ends to hold it together. I believe the metal is tin, and think it was likely a make do creation (I have had one other similar, also found in Maine and perhaps done by the same maker years ago) transforming scraps into something remarkably beautiful and satisfying in a very tramp art sort of way. (It also of course