Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1920 — Seaweed Scenes. [ARTICLE]

Seaweed Scenes.

yWlth a needle and human hair plctares have been produced on silk and Ivory which have amazed the art critics. This fact is recalled by a catalogue of -freak pictures which has lately been published. Landscapes, seascapes, portraits, and natural history pictures have been produced with extraordinary skill. .Needlework and beadwork pictures are fairly common, and shell, seaweed, and feather pictures were also very popular at one time. Seaweed pictures date back to 1780, when “an unknown lady” exhibited three landscapes in oil, “the trees and shrubs being made in seaweed —a new invention,” to quote the catalogue. ’Pictures cut in paper were* also freqgently exhibited, while on one occasion a lady exhibited a festoon of flowers cut in cork.