NEW STAPLE L/S - Green and Purple Laver
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This print is from plate 47 of The Sea-Shore, part of the 'Shown to the Children' series, published by TC & EC Jack of London & Edinburgh. Laver is another name for sea lettuce, and is edible. You can view the full volume here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/66669/66669-h/66669-h.htm#plate47
The illustrations are by Janet Harvey Kelman, circa 1907.
The book has the following to say about green and purple laver:
"Another name for this plant is the Sea Lettuce; and certainly, with its broad, bright green, crinkled leaves, it does look rather like a cabbage lettuce. It is a very useful plant to keep in a salt-water aquarium, for its leaves give off little bubbles of oxygen gas, which help to keep the water pure and fit for fishes and other creatures to live in. If you look at it on a bright sunny day you will often find that the leaves are covered all over with these tiny bubbles, which look just like little drops of quicksilver.
The green laver is found in abundance on most of our rocky coasts, and is often boiled down into a kind of jelly and used as food.
This plant [the purple laver] is very much like the green laver, except that it is purple in colour instead of green. It is often boiled down into jelly and used as food, more especially in Ireland, where it is generally known as “sloke,” and is cooked and brought to table in a silver saucepan."
$5 from every Green and Purple Laver shirt sold will be donated to the Australasian Society of Phycology and Aquatic Botany.
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Mid weight, 180 GSM, 24-singles, 100% combed organic cotton
Neck ribbing with twin needle stitch, ribbed cuff, side seamed, shoulder to shoulder tape, preshrunk to minimise shrinkage
Quality cotton grown without the use of herbicides or pesticides
The illustrations are by Janet Harvey Kelman, circa 1907.
The book has the following to say about green and purple laver:
"Another name for this plant is the Sea Lettuce; and certainly, with its broad, bright green, crinkled leaves, it does look rather like a cabbage lettuce. It is a very useful plant to keep in a salt-water aquarium, for its leaves give off little bubbles of oxygen gas, which help to keep the water pure and fit for fishes and other creatures to live in. If you look at it on a bright sunny day you will often find that the leaves are covered all over with these tiny bubbles, which look just like little drops of quicksilver.
The green laver is found in abundance on most of our rocky coasts, and is often boiled down into a kind of jelly and used as food.
This plant [the purple laver] is very much like the green laver, except that it is purple in colour instead of green. It is often boiled down into jelly and used as food, more especially in Ireland, where it is generally known as “sloke,” and is cooked and brought to table in a silver saucepan."
$5 from every Green and Purple Laver shirt sold will be donated to the Australasian Society of Phycology and Aquatic Botany.
Regular
Mid weight, 180 GSM, 24-singles, 100% combed organic cotton
Neck ribbing with twin needle stitch, ribbed cuff, side seamed, shoulder to shoulder tape, preshrunk to minimise shrinkage
Quality cotton grown without the use of herbicides or pesticides
NEW STAPLE L/S - Green and Purple Laver
£28.00