Vintage Folly Cove Design Lobsters II Block Print Barware & Drinkware A mug with a purpose

A mug with a purpose

Hand hooked

Before electricity became the preferred way to illuminate nighttime in the early 20th century

Japanese made modern chopsticks for cooking and eating with a band of indigo running down the center

Vintage Folly Cove Design Lobsters II Block Print Barware & Drinkware A mug with a purposeDesigned by Aino Clarke, apprentice to Virginia Lee Burton, this 1940s block print features a Japanese style ink on cloth block printing technique of lobsters, a local Gloucester, Massachusetts fisherman's catch. The Folly Cove Designers were founded in Gloucester, Massachusetts by Virginia Lee Burton, the celebrated children's book author and illustrator who wrote Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel,The Little House, and Mabel the Cable Car; among