Gorgeous Rusty Woven Iron Antique Trivet engagement gift Pretty sweet

Pretty sweet

The paper cover is quite worn and the back flap has torn off

This is a beautiful antique treen box

but I'm not completely sure

patience and dexterity involved

Gorgeous Rusty Woven Iron Antique Trivet engagement gift Pretty sweetI am completely obsessed with this thing, which I believe is a trivet, woven I'd guess 150 years ago or so of iron strips of varying lengths and widths, folded over at the ends to hold it together. Between the overall form, the pattern and texture of the woven strips, and the variegated color of the now well rusted iron, I find it just an exquisitely beautiful thing that I would hang on the wall straight away, and consider as a sculpture and painting