Seaweed collecting

For the process of collecting seaweed for food, see Seaweed farming.
Three dried seaweed specimens arranged on an album page
Seaweed from Charles F. Durant’s Algae and Corallines of the Bay & Harbor of New York (1850). Clockwise from top: Ulva linza, Sargassum montagnei, and Polysiphonia nigrescens[1]
The title page from an 1848 Seaweed collection by Eliza A. Jordan of Brooklyn.

Seaweed collecting is the process of collecting, drying, and pressing seaweed. It became popular as a pastime in the Victorian era and remains a hobby today.[2]

  1. ^ Durrant, Charles Ferson (1850). Algae and corallines of the bay & harbor of New York. New York : G.P. Putnam. p. 65. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.158141.
  2. ^ Shady, Beth (April 20, 2011). "The Process". SeaweedArt.com. Retrieved October 24, 2014.