Early Example: Lucky Strike + Camels Tramp/Prison Art Cigarette Pack Weaving graphics the color is very rich

the color is very rich and it really has the feeling of a drawing

all of a piece

with light general wear to the black paint over gesso frame

and scribbled a few other things on it as well

and in my option

Early Example: Lucky Strike + Camels Tramp/Prison Art Cigarette Pack Weaving graphics the color is very richI've found a handful of small wreaths (or ashtray holders) and a few picture frames made of intricately folded cigarette packs, but this is the first woven mat, and it is both an early example and a large one and really feels of a different ilk entirely. I think 1920s 30s, WW2 era latest. Thick and heavy and substantial, one gets from it the visceral sense of someone having indeed smoked their way through all of the packs of Lucky Strikes and Camels