Click The Picture To View The Video
Tag: Isable Natti
Isabel Natti Herring Plant Print
Isabel Natti’s Herring Factory Print is incredible on many different levels. One is that it is visually gorgeous, but what the casual observer may not understand is how much detail and how accurate the entire scene is to how we actually did things back in the day. Isabel worked for Wally Maggot, a guy who rented a pier that no longer exists on our property. They did the same type of whiting, squid and herring packing that my Grandfather Captain Joe, and Father and Uncle’s company did.
Isabel Natti Herring Plant Print, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
If you look at the photo up in the top right corner she tells the entire story starting with the two pair trawlers catching the herring.
Next in the middle, the boats are offloading at the dock where the herring get weighed and go up a conveyor into the pen room. From the pen room they would travel down on conveyors down the packing lines where they would get packed into 45 pound cases. Then they would get covered, weighed and then placed on big freezer racks. Next along you can see the person making up the boxes on the same box stapling machine that we used where you would press down with your foot on the pedal and it would swing the arm to staple the corners of the cardboard boxes. Lastly they get loaded on the truck to head off to the freezer.
I can’t believe she captured the entire scene in one frame. It is all there- the story of many many people’s day on Gloucester Harbor. I can see it all and it will live on through her work even though the piers have long fallen into the ocean.
Part II of our interview will be posted at 9:00AM
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Lobster Placemats Made With The Acorn Press
These lobster placemats can be purchased at The Sara Elizabeth Shop where Isabel Natti hand presses them with the Acorn Press. Part II of our interview with Isabel Natti will be up at 9:00AM
Lobster Placemats Made With The Acorn Press, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Isabel Natti At The Sara Elizabeth Shop at The Whistlestop Mall
Click The Picture To View The Interview
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Sara Elizabeth Shop at Whistlestop Mall Rockport
All of these prints were made using the Acorn Press. For more of the history of The Acorn Press, and The Folly Cove Designers click this highlighted text. Interview with Isabel Natti due at 9:00AM
SAra Elizabeth Shop at Whistlestop Mall Rockport, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Acorn Press At Sara Elizabeth Shop
Here is the Acorn Press still used today at the Sara Elizabeth Shop at The Whistlestop Mall in Rockport. Part one of my interview with Isabel Natti who maintains this tradition will run today at 9:00AM.
Acorn Press At Sara Elizabeth Shop, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Good Morning Gloucester 