WINNER OF THE BEST MIXED MEDIA BOOK AWARD AT THE CREATIVE BOOK AWARDS 2024 A gorgeous guide to foraging, pressing and using seaweeds for a wealth of home creative projects. Both aspirational and inspirational, this guide to bringing the outdoors inside is quite unlike anything on the market and will inspire all readers to begin their beach foraging journey. A beautifully packaged, comprehensive visual guide to seaweed by design company Molesworth & Bird. Seaweed will inspire readers to look beyond the tangled piles of seaweed washed up at high tide, to discover its exceptional beauty and appreciate its many uses. The book celebrates the unique appeal of the plants and showcases the myriad ways to bring their beauty indoors, with the authors providing step-by-step activities so you can create your own prints at home. Whether pressing a deep khaki green Peacock's Tail seaweed or creating a stunning cyanotype with Eelgrass, the possibilities are endless with this seashore bounty. The book is packed with glorious photography of the UK coastlines where the seaweeds can be foraged, alongside stylish interiors, and scenes of beach cook-outs and wild swimming spots. It also includes a library of pressed seaweeds presented in colour categories, with notes for identification and use.

There is expert guidance on collecting seaweeds, and it will show how foraged seaweeds can be used at home for cooking, dyeing and printing fabrics, and as part of your skincare routine. It explores the fascinating history of seaweed collecting and investigates its potential as a healthy food source and sustainable material, whether foraged or farmed. Gold title * Design company Molesworth & Bird forage and press seaweed from the south coast of England, and use this to create art prints, cards, calendars, enamelware and tea towels that sell to bookshops, design/gift shops and galleries around the world. Their large-scale prints were used in nationwide window displays for TOAST stores and the chain sells their limited-edition prints and cards * The company has been featured in lifestyle magazines and journals including 'Country Life', 'House Beautiful', 'Homes & Garden', 'Vogue', 'The Simple Things', 'Ernest' and 'Telegraph' Magazine. The authors have also been featured in US magazine, 'What Women Create' * The book brings together lots of current trends: coastal life, sourcing and cooking local produce, crafting, interiors, natural health and beauty and sustainability - the seaweed is gathered responsibly, their cards and prints are locally printed on FSC paper, and the stationery is acid- and chlorine-free Competition: From Coast and Cove;Wild Isles;River Cottage;Kinfolk;Pebble Spotter's Guide;Grow, Cook, Dye, Wear;Hedgerow Cookbook;Wild Light;Tonics & Teas;Outside;Outdoor Swimmers' Handbook. Nigel Slater;Anna Jones;Julia Child;Rick Stein;Anna Koska;Bella Gonshorovitz;Angela Harding;Rachel De Thample;Clive Mitchell.