Anna Atkins Large Book Necklace: Cystoseira fibrosa available-collection leaf bitter

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an early 1900s wallet and a piece of scrap and curious leather

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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 leaf bitterThis 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