Anna Atkins Large Book Necklace: Cystoseira fibrosa antique leather a reading light

a reading light

an illustrator to whom no detail was too small to be recorded in her art

Be it reminder

and made more

Anna Atkins Large Book Necklace: Cystoseira fibrosa antique leather a reading lightThis 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