Backs Turned, Bodies Lost to Grassy Hill, Lighthouses, Late 19th Century Paper Print Cyanotype sketches of young women which were used to comb

which were used to comb flax in preparation of spinning it into thread

but good for whatever little odds and ends now

sometimes artistic weavings can feel a bit too 1970s and/or recent hipster to me

with a wonderful warm dry patina to the wood

among whom seaweed collecting and pressing was quite the thing during the Victorian era

Backs Turned, Bodies Lost to Grassy Hill, Lighthouses, Late 19th Century Paper Print Cyanotype sketches of young women which were used to combThe lighthouse pictured here is Cape Neddick Lighthouse (aka "Nubble Lighthouse") in Cape Neddick, Maine, completed about 1880. (Lots about that history here. ) There are plenty of photos of it out there, historic and contemporary, but none I've found that portrays a sense of this grassy expanse from which one might look up at it. And for me it's all about that perspective, with only the heads and shoulders of this seated pair visible, their bodies