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

deep and even basketweave texture

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with light wear to the wood as documented

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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