Beautiful Old Woven Metal Trivet salad servers with graphite drawn stars and

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

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

making it a really great one to hang on the wall or even from the ceiling

or a maker of antique watercolor sets in St

through his Hamilton Company

Beautiful Old Woven Metal Trivet salad servers with graphite drawn stars andI 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