Beautiful Old Woven Metal Trivet salad servers This vase is the perfect

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

through his Hamilton Company

with graphite drawn stars and X's and heart on a few of the blank squares making it all the more so

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)

Beautiful Old Woven Metal Trivet salad servers This vase is the perfectI 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